At 11:39 AM 4/25/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I may not be reading/understanding this right but, yes, I understand the
TPS is
>a potentiometer however the resistance increases from idle to WOT which
>increases the voltage output to the PCM. On mine the resistance ranged
from 735
>ohms at idle position to 4,091 ohms just before WOT but at WOT the resistance
>went off the scale. What that should mean (according to ohms law) is that
the
>output voltage should be close to or the same as the input voltage at WOT
--but
>that's not what I got when I measured it. Really strange.
Your're correct, Tom. My knowledge or what knowledge I had in this area is
next
to nil. Going off the scale at WOT is strange.
Maybe the PCM is calibrated to treat any TPS input over 3.5v as WOT???
Bob
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