Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #18138
From: Bartrim, Todd <Steve.Bartrim@canfor.com>
Subject: actual water flow
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:48:36 -0800
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
actual water flow

        If you go into the archives and search for "coolant flow meter", you will find a few posts on this subject including a brief description of my current system.

        If you go to www.gfsignet.com and search under "Flow" you will find that model #515 is a small paddle wheel sensor that slightly protrudes into the flow path, offering minimal resistance. Go to "Fittings" and you will find a large selection of available fittings for this. I made my own which wasn't hard but requires some aluminum welding & patience.

        Last year I was using one of the EM2's aux. liquid temp inputs to display this as a 0-100% flow with 100% = to ~40L/s. This was just to see how the automatic pump controller would react to various flight conditions. I don't currently have it connected as I'm now using that input to measure the cooled coolant temps.

Todd    (need more channels on my EM2)



    Sadly, the pivotal instrument, a flow meter that doesn't disturb the
    system too much, is probably not available.  If someone could come up
    with a flow meter in a 1.25" line, we could do some expirements.

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