[Vwdiesel] Glow plug monitor or testing. --(clarification)

[H . Hagar.]

I can see that some of you do not understand what I was saying.

Hmmmmmmmm...maybe I'll just go back to the big honkin' blocking diodes and
LED's (Mark the Miser)....or a cheapie $10 multimeter and a 4P switch like
Hagar... Was it Val who used Hall-Effect sensors in the past? (I forget)
Mike in NB, Canada


4P  switch ?  ----   no sw , just two ring lugs  across Fuseblock.

Testing with Multimeter ?    I used an AVOMETER   8  MK III    on the
50 microamp setting.    That was to find a bad plug or make sure all work.

Continuous monitoring ?   .--- The best way.?     -----a shunt and a meter .
Adjust shunt for full scale with 4 plugs working.     If you see half scale
reading ?  ---simple two plugs are missing and so on.

All mine are dumpster  moving coil meters.  ---will a simple auto ammeter work ?
I do not know ----but try one.

Note that a superlean  Rabbit   like Bondo    does not start as well as a super rich Rabbit ---when it gets really frosty.

It is Hoar frost this morning 10 F     ---the bananas got to be defrosted.

50  seconds preheat then start.  ----and she does.


Hagar.

PS :     I do know that if all plugs are gone the simple auto ammeter will work.