Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #13870
From: <RWolf99@aol.com>
Sender: Marvin Kaye <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Capacitance Fuel Measurement
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:09:36 -0400
To: <lml>
I understand that the problem (feature?) of getting highly inaccurate
readings from a gasoline capacitance fuel probe that is submerged into a gas
tank with a puddle of water in it is not unique to home-designed systems.  
This is characteristic of all of them due to the capacitance difference
between gas and water.

I wouldn't bother incorporating electronic features to remove that
characteristic.  Remove the water instead with your fuel drain.

I might actually consider this a "feature", since you might be able to detect
water in the tank that way.  However, I suspect you'd have rough-running (or
non-running) engine problems long before there's a big enough puddle to
engage the probe.

- Rob Wolf
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