[alfa] Re: wierd milano electrical bit

[Joe Elliott <jelliott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The electronic box above the glovebox is the brains of the ARC. The 
display panel is merely that--a display panel.

As for the tube, my guess would be that it's meant to detect an 
iced-up evaporator and shut off the aircon.  Perhaps it works sort of 
like a Spica TA such that if the evaporator temperature is too low, 
it extends a bulb at the other end to open the switch, or something. 
I've never been inside the Milano HVAC besides to replace the 
resistors, but I do know that there's an additional switch depicted 
in the wiring diagram, the purpose of which I don't understand.

-Joe


At 2:09 PM +0000 7/26/04, alfa-digest wrote:

> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 15:44:55 -0600
> From: Carson or Wendy <dammwood@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] wierd milano electrical bit
>
> While taking apart the verde even more today I ran into a couple of
> things that are firsts for me.
> The first..  being electrical devices above the glove box. There is the
> panel with three screws above the front shelf and attached to it are two
> things, one looks like the door ajar chime and the other is the root of
> my question. It's quite large 6x4x2" with 7 plugs going to it. PN is
> 161144505501 from a sticker on it.
> The other question is with the heater controls. The AC knob has a sealed
> tube coming off it and disappearing into the heater box. What's involved
> with getting the rest of this tube out in one piece? I took the fan and
> resistors out to look in there but couldn't see anything.
>
> Thanks,
> - --
> Carson Damm
> Ft. McMurray, AB
> Canada
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