Hi Todd, as a fellow Canuck of about the same age, I’d say to each his own ... Celsius is okay when thinking in terms of weather forecasts and yes 0=freezing but in terms of
monitoring an engine I’ll take Fahrenheit over Celsius because the scale is almost 2:1. At the critical temperatures it is better to have that extra accuracy.
Canada is not really metric: Yes, the forecasts are in Celsius, we buy our gas in litres and the road signs are in kilometers which is nice, as 325 km@100 kph =3.25 hrs but
almost everything else is still Imperial or some other conversion: 2”x4” lumber, ½” plywood, ½” drywall, ¾” – ½” – ¼” fasteners, etc ... 341 ml beer bottle = 12 oz imp; 355 ml beer can = 12 oz US; 473 ml tall-boy beer = 1 US pint or 16 oz. Each system has
its’ merits: small fluid measurements in millilitres are better than ounces but small thickness measurements are better in thousands of on inch Vs millimeters.
Jeff (That’s my 2 cents worth or 1.54 cents US and I’m sticking to it)
From: Todd Bartrim bartrim@gmail.com [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]
Sent: March-28-18 2:54 AM
Subject: rescaling the EM2 for metric
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?