Re: Intermetent dead fuel gauge/wacko trip computer

[Robert Myers <rmyers@wvit.wvnet.edu>]

At 05:57 AM 10/21/96 -0700, you wrote:

>Now, do I have a pattern here?  On cold mornings as I start for the 
>first time, my trip computer goes wacko showing 700-800 miles available 
>only to have my gague reading dead empty.  Next time I start the car 
>that morning the gague and trip computer work.
>
>Someone mentioned that if it could be a problem with the voltage 
>regulator for the dash instruments, since I have more than one gague is 
>acting up.  What do you think?
>

Scott,

You are talking computers here.  Are you familiar with the acronym GIGO?
"Garbage in, garbage out".  This *may* be what you are seeing with your trip
computer.  The same circuits which provide readout information to your
gauges also provide information to your trip computer.

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   Bob
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