[elky] Re: Printed circuit board for gauges
- From: Chris Lindh <chrislindh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:23:45 -0400
I used to think I was going to cobble together VDO gauges for the '80.
Now I'm thinking I'll save my pennies for a Dakota Digital dash.:
VFD3-81C-MC
http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/product_id=200/category_id=-1/home_id=-1/mode=prod/prd200.htm
http://www.dakotadigital.com/cartimages/prd_zm_200.jpg
http://memimage.cardomain.com/ride_images/3/2140/4041/30349520058_large.jpg
http://memimage.cardomain.com/ride_images/3/2140/4041/30349520056_large.jpg
I need to see what it takes to become a dealer... the tach adapter I
bought worked well and was easy to install. Group buy anyone?
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Robert Adams <ladams21@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I think I have the headlight switch bracket and knob you need from the
>> Monte parts car. I'll look.
>>
>> My amp gauge always looks low V, and jumps with the turn signal, also when
>> the lights go on. It should a little, but not as much as it does.
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> That's cause of the connection at the pcb to harness. Mine never
> did it before.
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>> The light bulbs are always intermittent in these. Cindy's brand new 1978
>> Cutlass Supreme Brougham had that problem from day 1. Taking it in for
>> service only made it worse. The tach light was out its entire life.
>>
>> The center on in the cluster is out on both the Elky and the Monte.
>> JC
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> Mine have always worked and I have only had intermittent...
> The printed circuit board on mine is in very good shape 3 spots have
> demlaminated at ends but it doesn't affect how it works. The real problem is
> the connection between the harness and the PCB and all the other little
> contacts at clips etc cause the copper corrodes over time. Even at that it's
> the harness to PCB connection that causes all my problems.
>
>
> I have my stock cluster in here looking at it... And test
> fitting the gauges with the board on the back. I cut wire and got it started
> in the board and bent over so they stay in. Will solder them in tomorrow. I
> didn't have many different colors of small wire so I took a roll of purple
> wire and all the wires are purple... I'll mark the ends and splice them all
> in when I take the cluster back out of the elky.
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> Robert Adams
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