Return-Path: Received: from relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.166] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c3) with ESMTP id 811761 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:07:53 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.133.182.166; envelope-from=canarder@frontiernet.net Received: from filter04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.71]) by relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F80F358422 for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:07:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.166]) by filter04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.71]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11246-10-32 for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:07:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (67-137-85-150.dsl2.cok.tn.frontiernet.net [67.137.85.150]) by relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A513D35821B for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:07:02 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <423CA28D.5030002@frontiernet.net> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 16:07:09 -0600 From: Jim Sower User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: FD coolant level sensor? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0511-1, 03/17/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20040701 (2.0) at filter04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net Russell Duffy wrote: > Pretty much all cars have low fuel sensors. Most are NOT floats. I > think there are a lot of photocell and similar sensors that distinguish > between fuel and air and signal a low level. > > > Hi Jim, > > I've seen a few of these listed, but the problem is usually that they > aren't rated for a high enough temp. Good thought though. > > Rusty I didn't know there was a serious temperature limitation. I believe they're cheap enough and small enough that I'd be inclined to try one and see how well it lasted. Jim