Too hot for temp gauge?

Just curious if anyone ever has problems with their temp gauge/compass not working come beginning of summer? This is the 3rd summer that I've had to resolder the resistor on the gauge circuit board. Last summer I had to do it 3 times and this summer it hasn't even got that hot yet, just a few days over the 100's and it's already out. Just curious if anyone else continually has this problem in a hot weather climate.

 

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Yea mine doesn't work neither, have no idea why. I'd like to find a answer to this as well.

 

Most of the time it's just a resistor that popped loose and can be resoldered. I've had to do that multiple times now. Just seems like whenever it gets really hot here mine goes out.

 

I dont think it will ever get as hot here as it does where you are, Las Vegas.

 

A properly soldered connection does not just pop loose. unless your using liquid solder from a tube.

 

I don't use liquid solder. Didn't even know that was a thing. But it did break free from the factory solder. That's why the gauge went out to begin with. There's a whole thread on here on how to fix it. Just wondering if anyone else has had to fix theirs multiple times.

 

Couple of comments.

This is a cold solder problem. They have happened to many. Microsoft Xbox 360 had a cold solder problem caused by using the wrong solder (Mexico or somewhere, who knows). It was so common MS had to extend the warranties on these things.

Just touching a soldering iron to the connection might not be "good enough". A little touch of decent electrical solder (rosen core/acid core/etc) is the first step. The second is waiting for it to cool (changes from bright silver to dull finish) WITHOUT letting anything move at all. If you do that, it is not going to pop loose every time you turn around. Solder requires something around 400 degrees F to melt, and there's no way anything inside your truck will get that hot without a short. If you have a short, you already have more problems than a failed solder joint.

 

That could be the reason then. I'm gonna pick up some better solder up this weekend. Never knew there were different types. I just bought a soldering iron a few years back and have been using the solder that came with it. Thanks for the tip!

 

What temp and compass

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