Author Topic: Hill, you got to me :) (Read 3597 times)

Slave2School · « **on:** September 27, 2006, 06:46:54 pm »

Thank you aircraft spruce, hillfolk, and velcro

Non-operational for now, since I'm not bothering to hook it up to my dying vnt-15, the 17 is in the mail.

macsdub · « **Reply #1 on:** September 28, 2006, 12:07:47 am »

sweet
did you see the way mine is mounted too??
instead of a "normal" guage that goes thru the front of a panel
these actually install from the back,the guage should come with 4 countersunk screws also
i used an old "rabbit gti" guage panel and mounted mine to that,counter sunk the screw holes and voila,instant aircraft coolness
hey did you get the "light kit"?? mine didnt come with a light,and it was like 3 or 4 bux extra
lol
git er dun :wink:

Slave2School · « **Reply #2 on:** September 28, 2006, 07:36:56 am »

No I didn't get the light kit, I think I'll find an LED some day. I would have liked a panel to mount it into as well, but the gauge is slightly too large to fit in the cubby hole above the radio, so I'm using the pooor man's pod on the steering column. I saved serious bucks by getting it online through them though, even if it sin't as pretty.

macsdub · « **Reply #3 on:** September 28, 2006, 10:57:17 am »

yea the response is good too,best ive seen for a "non powered" thermocouple

moosiah · « **Reply #4 on:** September 30, 2006, 01:54:05 am »

Interesting.......... westac is down the street from me...... IF I ever get a day off I might go over there and check this out.............

jtanguay · « **Reply #5 on:** September 30, 2006, 03:19:32 am »

yea the way this thermocouple works is very neat. Uses dissimilar metals to use the actual heat to generate its own energy (they use the electricity generated by heat to calculate/calibrate temperatures...)

yea I love this egt gauge too... very quick responding! There was just a few occasions where I had the torch on it, and the needle didn't move... I was letting it warm up + cool down and I think about the 3rd time I did that, it lagged. Took about 5-10 seconds for it to climb up again.

Slave2School · « **Reply #6 on:** September 30, 2006, 10:39:26 am »

AND if you have ever used a peltier cooler, they work on the same principal, except you apply power to the dissimilar metals and you get heat trasfer from one side to the other. Fricken sweet

RabbitJockey · « **Reply #7 on:** September 30, 2006, 05:55:03 pm »

we played with thermocouples in my physics class, if you had a good bit of 2 different types of metals i am sure you could produce a fair amount of power assuming you could create a large enough temperature difference.

Slave2School · « **Reply #8 on:** September 30, 2006, 06:08:36 pm »

Canadian tire has a fan that works like that, it sits on the wood stove and blows the air around for "free" I think it is something like $150 for the fan unit LOL

macsdub · « **Reply #9 on:** October 01, 2006, 11:18:45 am »

i think i saw a spec on my thermocouple box that said somethin like
"32 mv@1500f"
not bad from just heat :wink: