T&T: Fly Bridge Guages

Rick and Brenda rickbren at scotiablue.com
Thu Mar 20 00:15:30 EDT 2008


Thanks - will look into locating sending units and second set of VDO
guages. The Cat engine has a junction box which connects the senders to
the harness/guages - will need to sort out connections.

Rick

> Hello.
>
> It should be easy. You will need to replace the senders on the motor;
> senders are calibrated to support one or two gauges. If you add a 2nd
> gauge
> to a sender calibrated for one, you will get incorrect readings. Gauges
> have two typical 'specs', one called '90 Ohm', and the other '180 Ohm'
> (sometimes called VDO). You say you have VDO gauges, so you should be
> able
> to get a second set of VDO gauges, put them in parallel with the
existing
> gauge and change the sender to a dual gauge sender.
>
> This web site has a lot of info and parts:
> http://www.egauges.com/default.asp
>
> Good luck!
>
> -al-


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