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Old December 12th 18, 01:15 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Martin Gregorie[_6_]
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Default New Concept for Sailplane "racing"

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:52:20 -0800, Emir Sherbi wrote:

1)Great idea 2)Hard to implement in the short term.
3)Expensive as at least 3 ex-wife


Which is expensive (apart from ex-wives ;-)?

I don't see why an energy logger would be much more expensive than an IGC
logger or a 'smart' electric meter. These days you can buy DC wattmeters
that handle up to 100A at 60v for $20. An energy logger is really just a
recording wattmeter but calibrated in joules rather than watt.hours


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