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- From: wcurtiss@travis.csd.harris.com (William Curtiss)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Where to mount an outside temp probe on a car?
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 13:47:35 -0500
- Organization: Harris CSD, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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- In article <1993Jan4.002944.6494@sequent.com> washer@sequent.com (Jim "Throw it over the wall" Washer) writes:
- >I'd like to mount a temp probe on my car to sample the air temp. I'd like
- >to get as accurate a reading as possible (without exceeding some reasonable
- >cost).
- >
- >Has anyone done this? Where did you mount the probe... How did you protect it?
-
- My 86 Isuzu Impulse had an external temperature probe. It was connected to
- the A/C system, along with one inside the passenger compartment. I'm not
- quite sure what it tried to do with the two readings, but the controls were
- supposed to select a given temperature, not a level of heating or cooling.
-
- Anyway, the exterior probe was mounted underneath, inside of, and behind, the
- back right wheel. (You could lift the carpet in the hatch-back and trace the
- wires going to it. It was just pressed through a gromet.) The manual even
- mentioned that it had to temporarily removed if the car was undercoated, or
- else the A/C system would malfunction. The muffler was on the other side,
- I believe.
-
- By the way, the interior probe was near the glove compartment, slightly below
- to keep it out of direct sunlight.
-
- I don't know it the current GM style Isuzu Impluse's have this feature or not,
- but I think most of the older pre-GM models do.
-
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