[V8] voltage gauge in place of clock

[dsaad at icehouse.net]

You lost me somewhere near "melt in frying pan", but is sounds like you
are having fun...

just an FYI - there is a diagnostic channel on the climate control that
reads out battery voltage on the red LED display.  It seems to be
accurate, but the actual point of measurement is not the best.  If you are
really concerned about battery voltage, you need to measure it at the
battery terminals.


Dave



> Well this is my first post here so bare with me.  My name is Andy and I
> own
> a 90' V8q auto 3.6 in Delray Beach Florida.  Ron steered me over here and
> I'm glad he did.  I've got a cool thing going on!  I am modifying a urS6
> volt meter in place of the clock which also has white face gauges from a
> urS4.  I pulled out the clock out and added a nut to the threaded stud to
> raise it up due to a different depth that the clock sat in after drilling
> a
> very precise hole.  Then it was at the same level as the others.  I also
> added sections from the illumination part with transparent glue so it
> rests
> over the bulb.  I drilled 2 more holes and stuck 2 pins into the upper and
> lower connections.  The lowest one is power and the other 2 are grounds
> which travel through a variable resistor which you rotate with a tiny flat
> head screwdriver to calibrate the gauge.  There are 3 components soldered
> to the urS6 circuit board the 100/200 have 4.  You have to use the same
> components that came from the coresponding vehicle as the variable
> resistor
> runs out of adjustment.  I went to Radioshack and bought a $4 tiny circuit
> board and component box and soldered all the components onto it in the
> order and direction they were in the aux circuit board.  Wired it up to
> the
> gauge.  The object of this was to convert the 3 wire gauge to 2 wires to
> wire it up to the car and to be able to calibrate it.  Right now I have
> the
> aux cluster from the V8 separate from the rest of it.  I'm going to
> install
> the assembly in my 91' Taurus SHO's passenger seat to test it for a while.
> I'd rather burn down the SHO then my precious V8.  I already hooked the
> assembly up to my jumper box for quite some time now today to make sure
> that the threaded stud doesn't melt my cluster.  Well as of now it
> doesn't.  Being as though as I am I'm going cut a piece of plastic off the
> urS6 and 100/200 clusters and put it in a frying pan and see what
> temperature it melts at with my laser thermometer.  I hope you guys are
> interested in this!  It works perfectly but the testing must carry on
> before I make more of these things if it comes to it for anyone that would
> like to do the same thing to there V8.  I will be in touch!!  -Andy
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