Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #63956
From: Todd Bartrim bartrim@gmail.com <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: rescaling the EM2 for metric
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 23:54:16 -0700
To: FlyRotary <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Since I've got the attention of another metric guy down under, I'll throw this out there.
Has anybody attempted re-scaling the EM2 to display in metric? Last summer when I added a set of SW resistive fuel senders to my auxiliary tanks to make use of the EM2 fuel input, as I was calibrating these data points I decided to have a go at changing the zero & span (scale factor & offset) to read in liters. It was easy and worked well. 
   I was 10 years old when Canada made the switch to metric so I'm quite comfortable in both systems of measurement and can easily visualize each unit without converting in my mind with one exception... temperature. Water freezes at 0C and boils at 100C, pretty simple and it's what I'm most comfortable with.
  So I don't really care about the fuel level & press, speed, alt, etc. But I'd really love to convert all my temps to Celsius. For many of the sensors this should be almost as easy as it was for the fuel level, but it doesn't seem possible to calibrate any of the J or K TC's. This would be quite undesirable to have two different temperature units.
 The other unknown is what calculated parameters would be affected by a change of units?
Would this affect autotune?
Or am I just going to have to get used to Fahrenheit?

Todd Bartrim
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