Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Mondial owners - electro-technical question

[Rick Lindsay (rolindsay]

Perhaps the device works like a thermotime switch in that the "resistance" is 
actually a heating coil around a bi-metal strip.  If the circuit perhaps 
measures the time until the contacts break, the oil would alter the warm-up 
rate if present.  If not, as in low oil level,the time would be much shorter.

Okay, that's a viable mechanism but is it THE mechanism?  Who knows.  I must 
experiment further.

rick


> I guess I should also mention that: a) the photos I saw were
> from a
> 3.2.  Don't know if they are different, and b) I never
> saw any
> correspondence from anybody that ever fixed one.  They
> simply
> bent the contacts.  I don't know if they did this
> because it was
> easy or it was the only practical method because the needed
> parts were unobtanium.
> 
> Hans.