Now
that I have returned from vacation, recovered from an Airline induced cold, and
caught up on other tasks; I can get back to the airplane. Tracy was prompt in diagnosing
and adding a filter to solve the EM2 display problem, and I have it back up and
running. That leads to a lot of other questions – lucky for him he’s
on vacation, so I thought I’d get some comments from other users.
So far just sitting
with engine off, I’m observing some anomalies, and wondered whether other
users see the same.
Local barometric
pressure is 30.02, so I expect it to give me this number as MP. With EC2
turned off it reads MP as 29.2 – I assume it is reading this with the
sensor in the EM2. With EC2 on (data feed from EC2) it reads 32.3.
Neither of the readings is correct. Should I be concerned?
Battery voltage reads about .75 lower than my voltmeter reads at the
breaker.
The RWS air temp
sensors (I have 3) all read 6-8 degrees lower than actual air temp (75F at the
time). I expect these should be accurate. The J-type TCs read right
on air temp. The K-type TCs are about 5-7 low at ambient temps, that doesn’t
really matter.
Oil and coolant temps
were somewhat off, but I adjusted calibration factors to get them about right. But
didn’t quite know whether to change ‘Low end offset’ or the ‘Sensor
offset’. I assume for the VDO sensors the scale factors are
correct. The more general question on temp calibration is, short of
taking out the sensor and putting it in boiling water, what’s a good (read
easy) way to get another reference point at something like operating temp?
Anybody using ‘Aux
Liquid temps’ 2&3? Mine aren’t working right.
Al (anxious to make
some more noise)