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Old 01-20-2012, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by sixto View Post
That makes sense. I figured it was always powered to vent the actuator when the key is on ON. Your way powers it only for 3 seconds each start and stop cycle.
I was planning on just using a simple solenoid actuated vacuum shutoff on my gas-to-diesel conversion. I would be very interested in a system where the vacuum to the shutoff would only be provided for 3-4 seconds after power was disconnected from the device. (I wouldn't want to be driving around with a solenoid that had to be activated to vent vacuum such that any malfunction would shutoff the engine.) So the way it would have to work for me to be interested would be for the vacuum device to have both a continuous and switched power source and a delay mechanism such that when there was an interruption in power on the switched circuit, the continuous circuit would activate a solenoid for the timed interval to perform the shutdown, and thereafter shut off the circuit so the solenoid wouldn't be active running off the battery. Is that the concept we're discussing?
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