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VK_3800
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Re: Torana SS

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The fuel, temp and oil pressure gauges started playing up recently, mostly not working at all but occasionally coming back to life. I had a standard instrument cluster on the shelf so I thought I'd steal the voltage regulator from that - turns out that puts out a steady 9V (should be 5V). Testing the original shows it to be in even worse condition.

So that generally means converting to a solid state regulator, but where to get one at short notice on a weekend? Then I had a thought.
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Sure enough, pulled it apart and there's a neat little board containing the regulator portion only, separate to the socket mount and silly LED. It even fits in the original housing!
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As expected the gauges are a little slower to rise but everything seems to work fine. According to the label this tiny thing is good for 3.1A so should be plenty for the instruments.
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Re: Torana SS

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VK_3800 wrote:The fuel, temp and oil pressure gauges started playing up recently, mostly not working at all but occasionally coming back to life. I had a standard instrument cluster on the shelf so I thought I'd steal the voltage regulator from that - turns out that puts out a steady 9V (should be 5V). Testing the original shows it to be in even worse condition.

So that generally means converting to a solid state regulator, but where to get one at short notice on a weekend? Then I had a thought.
Image

Sure enough, pulled it apart and there's a neat little board containing the regulator portion only, separate to the socket mount and silly LED. It even fits in the original housing!
Image

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As expected the gauges are a little slower to rise but everything seems to work fine. According to the label this tiny thing is good for 3.1A so should be plenty for the instruments.
Are you aware that an account on v8comp.co.nz is required to see the images you are posting links to??

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I can see the images and I'm fairly sure I'm not subscribed to the aforementioned site.
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Re: Torana SS

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There's no authentication on that server.

What message are you seeing, maybe something about the SSL certificate?
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Re: Torana SS

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All I see is the word "Image" where there should be an image ...

I personally do not care, my concern is for others, if others can see them, so be it!

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I can see all the images.
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Gampy wrote:All I see is the word "Image" where there should be an image ...

I personally do not care, my concern is for others, if others can see them, so be it!

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Good looking out Gampy,
I can see on my stuff here from Californication on my winXP, win7(super protected), and win10. Not that it matters a bunch, but am curious if you figure out the why.
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I would be curious too, especially if it's something I can change on the web host end. Someone on the Torana forum says the same thing.
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Re: Torana SS

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Sorry, I doubt I'll find out ...

My desktops are like me, old and rapidly declining, I have replacements, just need to do the software, I just don't have the energy to deal with em.

Facts are, I should have better investigated before popping off my mouth about broken offsite images ... But then that just wouldn't be me!

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Re: Torana SS

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Found an old V8 distributor, set it up in the lathe and gave it a haircut.

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Add a chunk of steel.

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And an aluminium cap.

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