Tuesday, May 25, 2004 at 22:04
Craig,
Yeh mate, had to add extra wire but didn't seem to affect the reading.
However, it's a mongrel of a blasted thing and I think I'm gunna change it to a VDO digital one.
It would be good if it worked properly. It's supposed to do the following:
a) show volts to one decimal point....this is okay most of the time.
b) have a permanent blue back light.....works occasionally
c) have a readout of outside or inside or both. If you select both it should mean the battery voltage doesn't show. This part has a mind of it's own.
d) it had a mongrel beeper which sounded at all odd times and drove me mad real quick; so I opened up the back and cut the wires.....no more beeper.
I removed the cigi plug and wired it permanently to my 2nd battery, so the back-light should stay on all the time....but it comes and goes for no apparent reason.
Sometimes it just goes to all "8888888" across the screen.
e) it came with a battery operated digital clock too, but that didn't keep accurate time, so I've taken the batteries out.
All in all it's a piece of crud......but the temp of the fridge seems to be reasonably accurate, anyway.
Good luck with yours.
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