How does this elderly Voltage Limiter work?
This is a Voltage limiter, for my Fuel, coolant temp, and oil pressure gauges in my '89 Dodge van. It plugs into my gauge cluster and is not extremely simple to access. My Factory service ...
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landyacht318 wrote:
Thanks for quick response. So I imagine the LM 2596 supplying a steady 5 volts would also operate the gauges properly?
I have one of those on a computer fan whose hub gets too hot at Absorption voltages and it holds a rock steady voltage no matter the input voltage, and has been plugged in for 6 months now, continuously.
Any theories as to why my cleaning of this stock unit caused the range to change and raise my gauges?
I don't know what the Dodge CVR output is exactly but if it's like the old Ford part then it needs to be about 6 Volts. If you use a 5V regulator then everything reads way too low (I've tried it!).
Don't know why cleaning it changed things - weird.
