X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from fed1rmmtao12.cox.net ([68.230.241.27] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1c.3) with ESMTP id 1332510 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:37:06 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.230.241.27; envelope-from=ALVentures@cox.net Received: from BigAl ([72.192.132.90]) by fed1rmmtao12.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060815153623.CSVP29796.fed1rmmtao12.cox.net@BigAl> for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:36:23 -0400 From: "Al Gietzen" To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] RWS EM-2 tips wanted.. Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:36:27 -0700 Message-ID: <000001c6c080$92b3ed90$6400a8c0@BigAl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Those of you running rotaries with the EM2.. what ARE you monitoring (yes.. this is a roll call request).. which points are you instrumenting. ------------------ This would be specific to each installation, but here is an example of 'in addition to normal sensors' for my 3-rotor with 2 coolant radiators: (BTW, I made my own J TCs) CHT 1 - Cowl rad coolant out CHT 2 - Wing root rad coolant out CHT 3 - " " " air out CHT 4 - In cowl air temp (near fuel rail; fire detection) EGT 4 - Re-drive oil out Aux Air 1 - Cowl rad air out Aux Air 2 - Oil cooler air out Liq temp 2 - Oil temp engine out (pan temp) Along with normal sensors, this give me liquid and air side temps, both in and out of both rads and oil cooler. Lots of info for diagnostics - most useful with some means of recording. Al