I once ran out of fuel in a new boat with a computerized fuel gauge. A dangerous situation in a boat. Basically, the size of ...

While this is most likely overkill for a gas gauge, we do thank [VadimS] for sharing the information. He shows us how to build a capacitive liquid sensor using an Arduino, some foil and some wire.

Some drivers see their car’s fuel gauge as a nagging parent ... which is about 10 to 15 percent of your tank’s total capacity. You can use that reference along with your car’s average ...

One option is to use a tank with a built-in fuel gauge, or to purchase an external gauge from a home repair store. These work by using the tank's internal pressure to measure the fuel level and ...

The gas gauges on ’60s and ’70s VWs were notoriously ... The problem was usually not with the sender unit in the tank, but the gauge in the dash, which used a bimetallic strip heated by ...

Drivers have reported that the fuel level gauge will show there's gas in the tank when there actually isn't – in two cases, the digital distance-to-empty gauge indicated more than 70 miles of ...

and only once the tank is bone dry does the car come to a stop. Besides the gas needle pointing at or below E on the instrument gauge, there are a handful of symptoms that vehicles exhibit when they ...