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Knock Sensor

To: dougq@iglou.com
Subject: Knock Sensor
From: quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 12:32:53 GMT
Cc: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
Reply-To: phil@isham-research.demon.co.uk
Sender: owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net

In message <E0y2xEm-0001MM-00@iglou.com> "Douglas Hurst Quebbeman" writes:

> Someone suggested that the knock sensor was basically a microphone.
> After looking at the schematic in the Bentley, I must concur. Looks
> like a condensor microphone.

Audi documents call it a 'piezo-electric' sensor.

There are no documented tests.  The books are _very_ definite about the 20Nm 
torque.

-- 
 Phil Payne
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club

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