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From: Mike <MIKE@vrsolns.co.uk>
Date:          Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:00:34 BST
Subject:       Re: Voltage regulator output / gauges

Many automotive gauges are hot wire types whose output depends not 
only on the current through them (controlled by the sender unit) but 
also on the ambient temperature. The current through them (and their 
reading) also depends on the battery voltage.

The regulator is a bi-metallic strip fixed at one end and fitted at 
the free end with a contact. It is wrapped with a heater wire, 
connected so that as the contact makes and breaks so does the current 
through the heater. This is self-sustaining and results in on and off 
times in the region of a few seconds or so and it is this on to off 
ratio which provides the regulated output via the afore-mentioned 
contact. The on to off ratio is also dependent on the ambient 
temperature and the battery voltage and provides compensation for the 
gauges. The gauges have time constants which are long enough for the 
switching not to be noticed.

Whilst the construction may not be exactly as described, the principle 
is. I do not know the type of gauge about which the query was made, 
being only an interested member with a son who is keen to acquire a 
Landrover, but I hope the above may be of help.

Regards

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Mike Gavins
VR Solutions Ltd
University Road
Salford
M5 4PP
United Kingdom
  Tel: +44 161 745 7384
  Fax: +44 161 745 8264
Email: m.gavins@vrsolns.co.uk
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From: Jim <J.D.Allen@plymouth.ac.uk>
Date:         Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:51:47 GMT
Subject:      Re: LRO digests

> you said:
> > Anyone getting the main international list? Has it died or 
has Bill simply 
> > accidentally dropped me in the move???????
> I haven't been getting anything from the international list 

either, I 
> don't know about anyone else?
> I haven't been getting anything from the international list 
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> JIM. (SIIA 88" 1965)
> I haven't been getting anything from the international list 

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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:01:56 GMT
From: Gerald Tan <gtan@bbchw.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Thin threads copied to the list ?

In your message dated Tuesday 13, February 1996 you wrote :

> What is the 'correct' principle with the list ? Should every question
> receive a personal reply ? 

IMHO (for what it's worth), if a query is posted to the list, then I post the 
reply back to the list (almost never cc'ing it personally), on the basis that 
others may want to know the answer as well, and the poster is more than likely 
to be reading the list anyway..Does this make sense?
Gerald
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:00:02 +0000
From: Ian Robinson <ian@fourx4.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Lights & Winch

In message <824320554.29611.0@krshaw.demon.co.uk>, Kevan R Shaw Lighting
Design <postmaster@krshaw.demon.co.uk> writes
>last weekend I was distressed to find that replacement sidelight units I
>put in my series 3 a year ago were corroding and failing. There seems to be
>fundamental problems with the old Lucas ones that died last year and
>Craddocsk finest which I believe are also Lucas, Has anyone any idea on
>where to get good sidelights, are the military ones any better?

We sell a replacment unit which is plastic backed and therefore no
corrosion @ 4.95 ukp ea + vat + p&p. Sold hundreds and NEVER had a
complaint !
>Also no one responded to my previous thing about Capstan winches, has
>nobody out there got a working one they use? I ahave antied up for a proper
	 [ truncated by lro-digester (was 6 lines)]
>rope, all 150 worth of it and am going playing this weekend, any tips
>would be appreciated.
Winching has been extensively cover by the LRO through numerous
publications. I guess it not a subject that many feel they can add to.
You wrap around a rope, switch it on and move a heavy object. There are
numerous skills or rather techniques involved but most boil down to the
logic of fulcrums and leverage, not forgetting the obvious safety
aspects.
PS If your Land Rover isn't the heaviest object best anchor it down
first :^)
Regards, Ian
                Forest Landrovers' 4 x 4 Centre
                Royal Forest of Dean, Glos, UK
                +44 (0)1594 822606/(0)402 000132

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