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[Tomf]

Nope it was a brand new part off ebay, and yes its all connected up the way you said, with the imput volatace connecting to B then the gauge connected to I. I have even run it another earth wire, but that doesnt help adjusting the 12 volts coming from the I terminal....

Any ideas what it is stabilizer is settling at 12v rather than 10v?

But as i say it does reduce the voltage to 12v give or take 0.2v either way whatever the input voltage is going in as, because at idle the imput voltage is around 12.5v and when accelerating this incleases to around 13.5v but the output from terminal i always stays near enough 12v

[dklawson]

As I mentioned earlier, checking the voltage with a meter (and a digital meter in particular) isn't always very accurate. Take a moment to read through the PDF I posted the link to earlier. You'll see how the Smiths stabilizer is turning its output on and off very, very quickly. Analog meters will sort of mechanically filter these pulses to average them, digital meters simply may not sample at a suitable rate to capture it.

The Landie unit may be defective even though it's new. There are numerous reports over here of the Mini stabilizers being dead right out of the box. I know of one guy (who works for a a U.S. parts supplier) who went through 5 stabilizers before he found one that worked. In short... you may just be unlucky.

Go back to my earlier posts. I gave an eBay U.K. link to one of the nicer looking aftermarket, solid-state stabilizers. In the U.S., Moss does not support the Mini but for other British cars they offer their part number: 131-555 which is a solid-state stabilizer made for Triumphs, MGs, etc. Moss Europe may or may not have that part.

Failing this... go back and look at the links I provided to my PDF and for the part (chip) from Maplin. You can can buy the chip for under 1 GBP, solder wires and crimp terminals to it, and mount it under the dash and be done with this.

[Tomf]

Yea after my last reply i went on the maplin website and ordere the a few of the parts you told me to order and i was going to follow the PDF you posted, howeveri though i would pop into the local motor factors and luckly they had one in there, the guy said he hadnt had any for years, but stumbled accross it when looking through his stock three days again, so i tried wiring that one up and everything is working now , but ill keep the parts from maplin for other minis in the future lol.

Thanks again to everyone that offered me help in this thread helped me loads

[dklawson]

I'm glad you got it sorted out and all is well. The Smiths stabilizer is great when it works but they sure seem to have more than their share of problems. I'm glad the one from the local guy worked.

The parts from Maplin should be inexpensive and they don't have a shelf life. I'm sure you'll have an opportunity to use them in the future.