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Old 07-02-06, 04:06 PM   #140 (permalink)
RavenTai
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It does sound like a bad connection, I am afraid you are going to have to go back in. fortunatly it is much quicker the second time,

check your solder points, they should look shinny and smooth, a crackeled or modeld or flat looking surface indicates a cold solder joint, one tip on soldering you want to get the iron as hot as it will get, heat the joint area and then take the heat away in a smooth short ammount of time, as you are melting solder your iron is getting colder and the board hotter, you want to get the joint hot before ecerything arroudn it gets overheated, the quicker you are the better,


and also check the screws that mount the gauge to the cluster, also inspect the plugs into the cluster, and generally look everything over for good contact

if you are good with electronics you could test it outside of the cluster using voltage from your battery and 2 watt potensiometer as a synthetic temperature sensor,

testing is what the calibration resistors were all about, I never have gotten to that part as it has been good for everyone so far and it would have been an added expense for everyone, I should have known that there would be troubleshooting to do eventually and I have not prepared, sorry by bad,

If you cannot get it figured out let me know, do you have a meter?

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