RST Engineering - JIm wrote:
If somebody can tell me how to convert angle of attack to an electrical
signal, the rest is rather trivial.

Jim


"Mike" wrote in message
...

Has anyone built an electronic angle of attack meter kit. It seems to
be something that would be easy to design but beyond my feeble
electronics background.

I have seen the products that are out there and they are simple
differential pressure gauges and are expensive. I don't like the
round differential pressure gauges that many of the companies offer
for this kind of system. I was wondering if there would be a way to
put something together that would light up different color LED's for
the different levels of lift that we could build at home without
having to pay out hundreds of dollars for a prebuilt one.




We used a reed switch array and a magnet to determine control rod position on my submarine's reactor. You could do the same with an
AOA using a magnet on a vane. You'd only need a few reed switches, one for each angle you were interested in: just before stall, best
angle of climb and best rate of climb corresponding to red, yellow and green LED's. What else do you care about?

--
John Kimmel


I think it will be quiet around here now. So long.