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Re: **IMPORTANT GEAR TOOTH SENSOR BOARD UPDATE** STICKY PLEASE

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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
As far as I can tell, the GTS board with J4 and J5 is indeed the one that needs to be repaired. I visited my brother today and he swapped the resistors, and explained the circuit to me first...

also before I went to see him, I connected each sensor board to a power supply and oscilloscope, and chucked up a small steel gear in a drill and tested them both, and the J4 J5 board did not seem to be working, the other one did put out a signal.

So it looks like I misidentified the problem board in the other thread, sorry for any confusion!
Thanks for the clarification Jim. Your efforts are appreciated.

On a side note, we decided to use Honeywell GTS's this year instead of the KOP sensors.
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