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Old 10-09-2010, 12:20 AM
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Originally Posted by tangofox007 View Post
So you believe that the temperature regulator switches the monovalve ground on and off on the order of hundreds of times per second? I don't have an oscilloscope, but when I put my ear close the the monovalve, I can hear it clunking open and closed. Seems to me that we are dealing with seconds per cycle, not cycles per second.
I put an LED and resistor on the monovalve coil to see if it was getting a signal. The ON OFF times were in seconds with an intermediate temp wheel setting. With the temp wheel at the extremes (detent positions: MIN or Max) , the valve is ON or OFF.
The mass of the monovalve plunger assemby does not lend itself to sub-second toggle rates.
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