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

[Hans E. Hansen (FList]

That's more or less like the mass air flow sensor in a fuel injection
system that I mentioned.

My guess is that it is something a lot simpler - like trying to measure
the resistance of the oil - if indeed there is anything to measure.

I have myself so damn curious now that I think in the morning I will
be shoving some ohm meter leads into a jug of oil.

Hans.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Rick Lindsay <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
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