Clarify TPS setting please, I need a clue...
#1
Clarify TPS setting please, I need a clue...
Sorry if I'm too **** about this but I don't want to mess up some electrical part on my bike due to my own stupidity if I can avoid it by asking questions of you guys. So, I am just setting the TPS on my 2003 Superhawk and the various posts call for 500 ohms +/- 10 ohms per Factory Pro's instructions. I'm using a nice new digital multi meter with multiple resistance range settings and I fabbed up a sanitary test harness that registers 0 resistance and I can't set my TPS to 500 ohms. I CAN easily set it to 500 k ohms which converts to 50,000 ohms. Is k ohms the unit that everyone is referring to when they say "500 ohms"? And they just assume that anyone with a hint of brains knows that it really means "k ohms" or am I doing something grossly wrong her? What did I miss?
#3
Well, I moved out of the direct sun and now I can read the decimal point on the multi meter! It actually shows .500 k ohms which equals 500 ohms. But for some reason, when I change the multi meter resistance range setting from k ohms to ohms I can't get any reading at all just the letters "OL" and the multi meter manual is at the other house where I borrowed it from.... Why can't I display 500 ohms but I can display .500 k ohms? Electricity is strange white man's magic.....
#5
Connected to top and middle pins on the TPS, connections are good so I gotta guess that in the "ohm" setting the range on this particular multi meter doesn't go up to 500 hence I have to switch over to the "k ohm" setting and display 500 ohm as ".500 k ohm"
#7
A lot of DVMs will have specific ranges that they work in, and OL or OR will mean that it's out of its selected range. For example, you might have a DVM that will read 0.2-200Ω, the next range being 2-2000Ω, then 20-20000Ω, and so on. Some of the nicer ones are autoranging.
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