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[ed4ran]

After getting an ACEWELL DigiDash from 16vMiniShop the only thing that didnt work out of the box was the fuel gauge,
so it needed calabrating, and with a little help from an article by DKLawson it was easy to do.

What you need is a resistor or several to fix either between the wires to the gauge,
or across the terminals of the sender itself, and the value needs to be as close to 156.5 Ohms
(we manged to get 157 Ohms from some random resistors i had in my box)!!

Havent installed it yet so cant tell exactly how well it relates to the level,
but it works well on the sender itself.

Quater of a tank seems to be the last block solid then empty it starts to flash.

At empty the last bar flashes:


Half full or empty (im an empty kinda guy):


Full O' Fuel:


Student bums do have a use!!

[Marky Tizz]

Did your dash come with a sensor?! Or did you use the one from the car already?
Is it possible to buy/make a new sensor?
Cheers.

EDIT: p.s. reaaaally sorry to drag up an old topic

Edited by Marky Tizz, 02 January 2007 - 10:34 PM.

[dklawson]

Boy, it looks like I missed Kudos from 6 moths ago.

His pictures show a standard Mini sending unit. The resistors he added are shown between the two spade lugs on the sending unit and serve to "reduce" the empty to full span of the sending unit to match what his gauge needs.

[Brawlyrox]

DK seems an electrical mastermind, saying that Ed knows his fair share too.

Thanks you two for this joint effort.

Nick

[Dolts]

sorry for dragging up such an old topic, but any chance you can tell me what the bands are oround the resistors used? ive got a load of resistors an go some to make 157 ohms, but it doesnt seem to work?

Cheers
Gareth

[luke6040]

i think green blue brown is close but have a look at this site it shows u how to work what resisters youve got:
http://www.arar93.ds...mponents01.html

http://www.diyguitar...rColorCodes.jpg

http://www.the12volt...istors.asp#calc <<this one is the best thers an app half way down that allows you to put in some colours then it tells what they are.

Edited by luke6040, 19 March 2008 - 07:58 PM.

[Dolts]

cheers luke, will look tommorow see if i can make sense of it all

[luke6040]

cheers luke, will look tommorow see if i can make sense of it all

No problem good luck. It might be worth gettin a multimeter if u havnt got one(u can get 1 for a fiver from maplin), then u can just physicly check each resister to see what they are.

[Dolts]

thats what i did, and i found 3 resisters that when i added the values together made 157 ohms, but when i fitted the across the terminals it didnt read right