Ok, just checked four of the units here and they all read between 5.52 and 5.57 volts. is that what yours is showing? If so, then there's not much chance of a new one giving you any better readings.
I can take that one back no problem, but if you want too, I noticed that (unlike our web picture) there "might be" an adjusting pot there on the back. Looks like it might take some strange new alien type of tool to turn it, but I'm going to give one a try here before recommending you do it.
In the meantime we have a couple of choices. We can get that one back from you and keep trying some until we find a higher reading unit. We can get that one back from you and you can then buy a Dakota digital cluster!!!! Or you can attempt to adjust the one you have.
Normally that would not be an option since the manuf. won't take something back that's been tweaked and twiddled with, but I'll go out on a limb and say just go for it and see what you get. I'll take it back no matter what and see if we can get Drake to give us credit.
Now that's all assuming that the 5 to 5.5 volts is in fact incorrect. Hoping to hear from someone here about that aspect though.
It was suggested by one of the electrical types here that if the gauges were pegged long enough, that their "zero" or calibration could have changed slightly. Whether that's true in your case or not is unknown and you'd have to check with a known ohm reading or send them in to one of us that has a calibrated tester (oleguy made a few a couple of years ago) and that might be the only way to know. Not sure on that score either.
let me know what you find with further testing, or if you know it was exactly 5 volts I can send you one of our 5.5 volt thingies and see what that does to your readings.
Paul
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