Yeah I know it's a British car, but some of the electrical behaviors exhibited by my Seven seem odd even by those standards. If anyone can explain the following, helpfully or not, I'd like to hear it.
1)Sometimes on first starting the motor for the day, the windshield wipers run for three sweeps. The obvious fix is to remove the windshield wipers.
2)The red LED on the speedometer seems to be "ignition", which near as I can tell is supposed to indicate the engine is running.
3)The tachometer lead from the wiring harness seems to only connect to a weak light bulb dangling under the dash which doesn't change brightness with RPM. It may be a backup for #2 near as I can tell. (Is tachometer controlled by voltage, pulse freq, or pwm?)
4)There's an electrical connector dangling from the left side under the dashboard which seems like it might be useful. It looks stock. Anyone know what it might go to?
5)The right blinker runs at twice the speed as the left. Probably a resistance mismatch somehow, but still funny.
6)TunerStudio software has gauges for all this and more, which work perfectly. Maybe it's easier just to mount a small digital screen above the steering wheel. It's not like I can see the speedo or tach when I'm driving anyhow.
1)Sometimes on first starting the motor for the day, the windshield wipers run for three sweeps. The obvious fix is to remove the windshield wipers.
2)The red LED on the speedometer seems to be "ignition", which near as I can tell is supposed to indicate the engine is running.
3)The tachometer lead from the wiring harness seems to only connect to a weak light bulb dangling under the dash which doesn't change brightness with RPM. It may be a backup for #2 near as I can tell. (Is tachometer controlled by voltage, pulse freq, or pwm?)
4)There's an electrical connector dangling from the left side under the dashboard which seems like it might be useful. It looks stock. Anyone know what it might go to?
5)The right blinker runs at twice the speed as the left. Probably a resistance mismatch somehow, but still funny.
6)TunerStudio software has gauges for all this and more, which work perfectly. Maybe it's easier just to mount a small digital screen above the steering wheel. It's not like I can see the speedo or tach when I'm driving anyhow.
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