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From: "Ed Anderson" <eanderson@carolina.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Last Screen Display Photos
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:22:53 -0500
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Sigh!  Yep, no question you are correct, John.  But you wouldn't believe the 
effort in making that board/buttons/display fit a 2 1/4" constraint - as Mr. 
Ford was reputed to have said .."... You can have it any color you want, as 
long as its black" {:>).

Seriously, I have only steam gauges so was somewhat constrained by my rather 
antiquated instrument panel - 10 years ago (how fast time flies) there was 
almost nothing (that I could afford) that would give a glass instrument 
panel.

But, perhaps I should insure that the front of the display could be mounted 
to about anything a person wants.  Four screw mounts should take care of 
that.

Thanks for reminding me of the current trend.

Ed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Overman" <mooneydryver@yahoo.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 12:38 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Last Screen Display Photos


> Ed just a thought;
>   I think a lot of new builders are using very few
> round gages. I, for ond, don't have one round thing in
> my panel.
>                               John
>
>
> --- Ed Anderson <eanderson@carolina.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> You have a good point. Dave.
>>
>> I wanted to occupy the smallest amount of instrument
>> space consistent with a readable display.  Until the
>> new OLED type display became available, I just was
>> not happy about the quality.  The old one was
>> readable under most lighten and viewing conditions
>> but not all.  This one is much, much better.
>>
>> At the moment, I had planned to package it for the 2
>> 1/4" dia standard instrument hole.  The trouble is I
>> have found no source of reasonably priced instrument
>> cases.  I did find a few metal ones with minor flaws
>> and even those were $25 apiece on sale.
>>
>
>
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