Need to add two gauges, water temp and oil pressure

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Re: Need to add two gauges, water temp and oil pressure [Re: larrymopar360] #2540322 08/23/18 09:33 AM 08/23/18 09:33 AM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 1,756 London, England Gavin top fuel
Gavin top fuel Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 1,756 London, England	Honestly, it's a myth that mechanical are somehow inherently more accurate than electrical. In both cases you are taking a physical property like pressure of temperature and converting it to a gauge needle position. The accuracy is only as good as the measurement and the conversion. Every modern car uses electrical/electronic gauges for everything, including the speedo which has legal requirements for accuracy. So the accuracy of your gauge is down to the quality of the design & construction more so than the technology. Also, if we take a step backwards, how accurate do we need most gauges to be anyway? Realistically if they are within 5% of reality that's enough in most applications, and from a design/manufacturing perspective that is not really challenging. In this day and age I wouldn't even consider a mechanical gauge unless there was some nostalgic appeal or you already had them for free.

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Need to add two gauges, water temp and oil pressure	PAULS_340	08/21/18 05:05 AM
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Re: Need to add two gauges, water temp and oil pressure	larrymopar360	08/23/18 01:22 AM
Re: Need to add two gauges, water temp and oil pressure	Gavin	08/23/18 01:33 PM
Re: Need to add two gauges, water temp and oil pressure	71birdJ68	08/23/18 03:09 PM
Re: Need to add two gauges, water temp and oil pressure	Supercuda	08/23/18 03:31 PM
Re: Need to add two gauges, water temp and oil pressure	71birdJ68	08/23/18 06:09 PM
Re: Need to add two gauges, water temp and oil pressure	Supercuda	08/23/18 07:05 PM
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Re: Need to add two gauges, water temp and oil pressure	topside	08/21/18 11:13 PM
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