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Innovate MTD Ethanol Gauge issue

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Old Mar 7, 2019, 10:07 AM
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Question Innovate MTD Ethanol Gauge issue

I'm having a weird issue with my innovate ethanol gauge. My original ethanol gauge was reading 1.2xx volts (yellow output wire) on 10% ethanol which is incorrect as it should've read .50v(setting: 0v = 0% and 5v = 100%). Innovate warrantied the gauge and sent me a replacement. The replacement gauge reads 9.8 - 10% ethanol on 93oct which seems correct but the output voltage wire(yellow) is producing .25v but shout be around .45-.50v. I'm going crazy trying to get the output voltage wire to output the correct voltage. Has anyone ran into this issue? Is it possible i got another bad gauge? Also, the ethanol content sensor wires into the gauge and the gauge outputs the ethanol percentage to voltage.
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I'm going to try another source for power and ground to triple check....
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Resolved. It was a bad ground as once it was grounded to the battery it started reading correctly
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In California, our 91 octane has 10% ethanol ever since MTBE was banned.




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