On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, timnagin wrote: > Are you able to connect a VOM and watch what happens during these events? Yeah... I have. If there's anything happening, it's too fast. I actually seem to have jumped the gun with claiming the diode helped. It certainly appeared to, because I didn't have the meter jump when I stopped the engine on several successive trips, but then this evening, it did it again, so the diode apparently didn't actually help. I watched it pretty carefully this time, and the movement really looked gravitational to me. It's almost just a feeling, but the acceleration as the needle rose looks like that I expect from gravity, not from a magnetic field inside the gauge. > > Maybe the UV paint I put on the needle has changed the weight just > > enough to make it slowly migrate up? Possible. > > How would the paint make it migrate up? The added weight would seem to make > the needle drop, if it had any effect at all. The needle has a tail that extends out the other side a little bit. I figure if I managed to get a pretty thick coating of UV paint on this part of the needle, it could pull the head end up. Since the UV paint is water soluble, and I'm not using it anyway, I'm going to clean it off next time I open the cluster up (which is becoming practically a daily ritual now). If all else fails, I'll just put a roll pin through the gauge face and solve the problem once and for all. -andrew Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=267637.4116730.5333196.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1754451/R=0/SIG=11tm86fb5/*http://www.netflix.com/Default?mqso=6 0178323&partid=4116730> click here <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=267637.4116730.5333196.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1754451/rand=962534375> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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