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299 And you can provide suitable holes and slots in the plate to securely support the pot and allow adjustment of the idle Roger Bywater of AJ6 Engineering reports, “Some years back when we needed a clean throttle signal we used a 5K That idea of using fuel hose as a coupling is a good one -- regardless of where you mount the pot. A pot doesn’t take
THROTTLE POTENTIOMETER UPGRADE: Matt Emmons thinks that using a potentiometer here is a bad idea due Yeah, right. Where are you going to find a Hall Effect sensor that will go in here? And who’s going to figure out how Folks, you simply have to see this to believe it. It’s very difficult to find a generic potentiometer that can be adapted to
http://www.electrocorp.com/o1-4.html
http://content.honeywell.com/sensing/prodinfo/solidstate/
http://www.nasatech.com/Briefs/Oct99/MOC10991.html
http://www.clarostat.com/NEWhalleffect.htm
http://www.wabashtech.com/throttle.htm http://www.beiduncan.com/html/news/
http://www.delphiauto.com/pdf/intellek/rotary_sensor.pdf
http://www.aecsensors.com/sensors/noncont.htm
http://www.bourns.com/bournsautomotive/tps.html Note that last one is actually Bourns. “There are more. The Honeywell site was particularly informative about Hall “Most of the manufacturers would not sell them to me in such small numbers, but the one I got is made by Clarostat.
http://www.alliedelec.com/catalog/pf.asp?FN=630.pdf Connecting it up? Believe it or not, you just connect it up. While the pot took the 0 and +5V leads from the ECU and What’s more, Hall Effect sensors are apparently cheap -- cheaper than the OEM pot. It would not surprise this author to learn that some of the Ford and GM TPS’s described above are actually Hall Effect
THROTTLE POTENTIOMETER -- LATER CARS: Charlie Fritz says, “the 95 XJS has a double potentiometer in the |