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Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 11:14:17 -0500
From: Rob Logan <Rob@Logan.com>
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Subject: RE:  Pillar Point Fuel Sensor
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  From: RWolf99@aol.com

Thanks for all the responses.  Probably the most revealing was Bob Belshe's
which said that bubbles get pumped thru the fuel lines but when the pump shuts
off, the fuel drops back towards the pump, which would basically fill the fuel
line downstream of the pump and "spoof" the fuel sensor.  This is what I
expected but was hoping that I'd hear differently.

So I guess I need to do what I should have planned all along, which is to
have the sensor mounted in the stub wing so the pump will suck the line dry.

Frankly, I don't expect to be running the wing tanks dry very often -- and I
asked about this last year in this forum and found that very few of "all
y'all" do, either.

Gee, all this newfangled high-tech gizmos -- sometimes I think the early
Lancair guys with the mechanical trim systems and sight tubes and stone simple
solutions that don't use electricity might have been on to something after
all.....

Thanks for all the comments.  I'm hoping to fly it to Oshkosh in 2005 but my
day job gets in the way.  I think I'll be spending at least 4 of the next 5
"days off" in the office.  (Whine, whine....)  I'm not really complaining about
the job but it is quite effective at keeping me out of the garage!

- Rob Wolf
LNC2 70% and holding....