Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #63995
From: Todd Bartrim bartrim@gmail.com <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re. Rescaling the EM2 to metric
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 00:45:36 -0700
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Hi Andrew;
 I haven't spent much further time on the metric conversion. I think it wouldn't be as simple as I hoped. It was fairly straight forward to convert the fuel level to litres and most of the temp measurements should be almost as easy, but the K & J thermocouples have different raw data, that I don't believe would be easy to convert. And then some of the calculated parameters will likely be adversely affected as well. Probably not impossible, but first, I just don't have the time and second, I would probably have to be bugging Tracy a lot for info and he's busy being retired in the mountains of Colorado where he seems to be online only occasionally.
   I have however longed for a data-logger which the early EM2 didn't have (I have #003). With the increasing popularity of hobby microcontrollers I can get a Ardurino microcontrollers for $35 and a datalogger for it for $6, so I just asked Tracy about the possibility of harvesting data from the EM2.
  However for a few other reasons, I'm considering that next time someone on the list is selling an EM3 from an abandoned project, I might buy it for an upgrade. I think there was one recently but it was bought up right away.

Todd Bartrim

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 7:58 PM, Andrew Martin andrew@martinag.com.au <flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote:
Todd, did you ever get the EM2 recalibrated to metric? I never attemped this as doing so usually gives me quite a few hours work to get back to a working system. I used Tracy’s factory calibration in the EM2 as the base to calibrate my efis, which is in metric. It is a minor inconvienience to do the mental arithmetric when comparing instruments, but would be interesting to know if you succeeded.
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Regards Andrew Martin Martin Ag

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