jethrob
Newbie level 4
Hi All
I picked up a digital voltage gauge for my families Polaris Ranger. **broken link removed**
Tested it on a battery first, fine, drilled a big hole in the dash, installed, started up the ranger, and the gauge goes NUTS. It's very hard to read...it's like it is reading to fast. It's in two digits and once decimal, 12.6 for example, the .6 is fluctuating to fast to to read, the 12 is flickering too.
Well tossin it and grabbing another is no fun, so I'm trying to fix it. The only thing I could figure to do with my internet education is to wire in a capacitor, because those are supposed to filter too?
So I loaded up the kids and went to the local Radio Shack.
I bought a couple of capacitors, one is a 1uF non-polarized Electrolytic Capacitor and the other was a 10UF. I hooked them up and the guage won't work at all with them. What am I missing here? Is the gauge not enough load to trip the capacitors? Am I thinking on the right lines?
I picked up a digital voltage gauge for my families Polaris Ranger. **broken link removed**
Tested it on a battery first, fine, drilled a big hole in the dash, installed, started up the ranger, and the gauge goes NUTS. It's very hard to read...it's like it is reading to fast. It's in two digits and once decimal, 12.6 for example, the .6 is fluctuating to fast to to read, the 12 is flickering too.
Well tossin it and grabbing another is no fun, so I'm trying to fix it. The only thing I could figure to do with my internet education is to wire in a capacitor, because those are supposed to filter too?
So I loaded up the kids and went to the local Radio Shack.
I bought a couple of capacitors, one is a 1uF non-polarized Electrolytic Capacitor and the other was a 10UF. I hooked them up and the guage won't work at all with them. What am I missing here? Is the gauge not enough load to trip the capacitors? Am I thinking on the right lines?