Folks.
When it comes to aircraft instruments, I prefer analogue dials. They are easy to color mark. The pointer is either in the green or not and even without reading any numbers I can quickly scan the instruments, even in turbulences. The digital numeral displays are showing numbers. I would have to memorize all the different values and their corresponding ranges to get a picture of the engine. Besides, what values besides oil temperature and oil pressure will you monitor? EGT and CHT are not so important when running a single carbureted engine with a fixed pitched propeller. You lean by rpm here. EGT / CHT serves no purpose then in the OPERATION of the engine. It is merely more or less useful information. The layout of the instruments for engine monitoring that Erco came up with is really neat in my eyes. Engine in one group. I can quickly see that rpm, oil pressure and oil temp all agree to each other. This can hardly be bettered - if that's an English word. I'd keep it simple. But that's me. Hartmut To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 15:24:13 +0000 Subject: [ercoupe-tech] Engine Monitoring Methods My new coupe has less than my ideal of engine monitoring instruments, I am thinking one of the new fangled Engine Information Systems (EIS) like from Grand Rapids would be far better, AND less weight. Has anyone put one of these in a coupe? How well does it work? _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Friends get your Flickr, Yelp, and Digg updates when they e-mail you. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_3:092010
