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Hey! A little more respect for your elders {:>). Back then there were very few liquid cooled engines in flying homebuilts at all - NOW you can find "coolant" or "Water" pressure and temperature gauges.
Yes, I have been know to make do with what ever would make it go. If we were logical (according to most folks) we would be flying behind a Lycoming {:>).
Trying my hand at the use of a miniature colored graphic OLED display - but can't even get the thing to turn on a pixel yet. So is it the display, the controller, my connections or my software? (No answer required) These things have gotten very complicated, taking 15-20 separate commands just to configure and initialize - makes programming a chip seem simple {:>)
Ed
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steitle, Mark R" <mark.steitle@austin.utexas.edu>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 7:27 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: gauges
Ed,
Let's see if I got this straight... You fly an airplane you built in your garage, installed a car engine... (sideways), with pistons that go round and round instead of up and down (like real engines do), you're using a fuel pressure sender for water, and a water sender for fuel. Hmmmmm, OK, sounds perfectly logical to me.
Mark
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From: Rotary motors in aircraft on behalf of Ed Anderson
Sent: Sat 12/2/2006 9:41 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: gauges
Wendell, I used a 0-30 psi fuel pressure sender for my water pressure - still working after 8 years. I also used UMA's 0-30 psi fuel gauge which they remarked as "water pressure" rather than "Fuel Pressure". They used to have a Water pressure gauge - you might try their web site.
http://www.umainstruments.com/
Ed
----- Original Message ----- From: Wendell Voto <mailto:jwvoto@itlnet.net>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 11:31 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: gauges
----- Original Message ----- From: Lehanover@aol.com
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 9:17 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: gauges
In a message dated 12/1/2006 9:33:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, downing.j@sbcglobal.net writes:
Some DAR's require that you have a valve and can reach it with your seat belt on. I assume an electric one, as Ed mentioned would also do. JohnD
The control valve could be outside the cockpit and operated by a dash mounted pointer with a long aluminum tube shaft through the firewall to the valve.
LYnn E. Hanover
Speaking of fuel valves, the original Cozy plans call for a manual selector valve mounted between the pilot and co-pilot with lines up to the seat-back and then to the engine. This setup has several connections in the cockpit that can leak.
As far as a fuel shut off valve, I don't plan on using one, just turn off the fuel pumps. For maintenance I plan on ball valves out of the tank (ahead of the sump tank) and these could be remotely operated.
Thanks to all for the responses on the gauges questions. I found some sources for the VDO units and will look at the suggested ones also.
Any suggestions on water pressure gauge senders? Can't find any yet.
Wendell
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