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by donthelegend
Wed Feb 12, 2020 4:08 pm
Forum: Drivetrain tech
Topic: Paddle Shifter Write-Up
Replies: 39
Views: 41446

Re: Paddle Shifter Write-Up

I think this is the same guy is claims he has a patent on this on FB. But when you do a patent search on his name no patent comes up and he refuses to post the patent number. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p...
by donthelegend
Wed Feb 12, 2020 2:54 pm
Forum: Drivetrain tech
Topic: Paddle Shifter Write-Up
Replies: 39
Views: 41446

Re: Paddle Shifter Write-Up

Any EEs in the area that care to chime in? Max voltage for this circuit is 14VDC - across a 1K resistor thats 14mA, which works out to a little under .2 watts - just fine in a .250 watt resistor. There's always at least 1k of resistance in circuit... and working as designed there's more than that so...
by donthelegend
Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:27 pm
Forum: Drivetrain tech
Topic: Caprice Paddle Shifters
Replies: 18
Views: 47343

Re: Caprice Paddle Shifters

Has anyone seen the G8 GT paddle shift kit being sold now? Supposed to be on FB which I'm not on and they just installed one on two guys garage show with ZERO explanation but clearly the parts were OEM camaro not aftermarket... Bump. I'm interested in this as well. Just did a writeup on this - hope...
by donthelegend
Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:25 pm
Forum: Drivetrain tech
Topic: Paddle Shifter Write-Up
Replies: 39
Views: 41446

Paddle Shifter Write-Up

Full disclosure up front - I didn't do any of the original troubleshooting/development of any of this myself, but the required info is scattered across multiple forums, multiple threads, from multiple users, with lots of dead links and paywalled or entirely missing pictures. After much scouring I go...