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Fuel gauge resistance

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 11:13 am
by Keefyboy
Hi I have an aftermarket fuel tank and it uses a VDO type sender, my question is would anyone know the specs on resistance in ohms that the original sender would put out? Any info would be much appreciated, many thanks in advance
Keith

Re: Fuel gauge resistance

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2016 9:12 pm
by DB RX63
I struggled to find the answer to this one, but Car Builder Solutions do a converter that might help:

http://www.carbuildersolutions.com/uk/m ... ge-matcher

Re: Fuel gauge resistance

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2016 10:56 pm
by codge
Keefyboy wrote:Hi I have an aftermarket fuel tank and it uses a VDO type sender, my question is would anyone know the specs on resistance in ohms that the original sender would put out? Any info would be much appreciated, many thanks in advance
Keith
Combining data & tolerance from Works Manual for Series 1 and Haynes Manual for Series 2 both say the same:....
Resistance at 'Full' 3 ohms (tolerance +2 -3 ohms)
Resistance at 'Empty' 110 ohms (tolerance +11 -7 ohms)

That explains why gauges fail to 'Empty'......somethings gone open circuit.
Hope that helps.

Re: Fuel gauge resistance

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2016 11:21 pm
by Keefyboy
codge wrote:
Keefyboy wrote:Hi I have an aftermarket fuel tank and it uses a VDO type sender, my question is would anyone know the specs on resistance in ohms that the original sender would put out? Any info would be much appreciated, many thanks in advance
Keith
Combining data & tolerance from Works Manual for Series 1 and Haynes Manual for Series 2 both say the same:....
Resistance at 'Full' 3 ohms (tolerance +2 -3 ohms)
Resistance at 'Empty' 110 ohms (tolerance +11 -7 ohms)

That explains why gauges fail to 'Empty'......somethings gone open circuit.
Hope that helps.

That really does help mate, thank you very much, I appreciate you taking the time to look into this, cheers codge