Digital OAT

Thanks Bob,
Can you describe the probe please? How big is it, how far outside the skin
does it extend? We've got un-used radio cooling "scoops" that extend
outwards along the sides of our nose and I was hopeing to install the probe
on the back of this panel placing the probe inside the scoop to protect it
from "the cleaning lady".
Jim

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"Jim Burns" wrote:

Thanks Bob,
Can you describe the probe please? How big is it, how far outside the skin
does it extend? We've got un-used radio cooling "scoops" that extend
outwards along the sides of our nose and I was hopeing to install the probe
on the back of this panel placing the probe inside the scoop to protect it
from "the cleaning lady".
Jim

um, it's about 1" long and a little less than 1/4" in diameter.

Let me go over to the airplane Saturday and I'll take a measurement
of the length.

--
Bob Noel
no one likes an educated mule

Thanks. No need to go to any extra trouble, I think we could also put it
directly in front of the windshield by reaching up through the side panels
on the nose, that way it will get good ram air blowing on it and won't have
any restrictions that could build up ice around it.
Thanks!
Jim

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In article ,
"Jim Burns" wrote:

Thanks Bob,
Can you describe the probe please? How big is it, how far outside the
skin
does it extend? We've got un-used radio cooling "scoops" that extend
outwards along the sides of our nose and I was hopeing to install the
probe
on the back of this panel placing the probe inside the scoop to protect
it
from "the cleaning lady".
Jim

um, it's about 1" long and a little less than 1/4" in diameter.

Let me go over to the airplane Saturday and I'll take a measurement
of the length.

--
Bob Noel
no one likes an educated mule

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"Jim Burns" wrote:

Thanks. No need to go to any extra trouble,

It is NEVER extra trouble to go over to my airplane
(besides, it's only 7 miles from my house).

--
Bob Noel
no one likes an educated mule

Hey Jim...we installed a Davtron in the Arrow. OAT probe is in the
middle of an inspection panel on the bottom of the left wing. IIRC,
it's the forward most panel and the first one from the bottom of the
fuselage. The Davtron works great. Way easier than trying to read the
old OAT in the windshield.


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-IA Student
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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Thanks Jack,
I think it comes with a 6 foot cable, so I think it's gonna work fine right
up infront of the windshield. To mount our display in the panel, 6 feet
wouldn't be enough to get it out past the engine nacelles if we tried to put
it in wing inspection panel.
Jim

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Hey Jim...we installed a Davtron in the Arrow. OAT probe is in the
middle of an inspection panel on the bottom of the left wing. IIRC,
it's the forward most panel and the first one from the bottom of the
fuselage. The Davtron works great. Way easier than trying to read the
old OAT in the windshield.


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-IA Student
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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Jim Burns wrote:
To mount our display in the panel, 6 feet
wouldn't be enough to get it out past the engine nacelles if we tried to put
it in wing inspection panel.

Oh ya, you got one of them funny planes with engines on both sides of you!

I was curious as to where they'd mount our OAT probe and when I found it
thought "Well, that makes perfect sense". If you do get a Davtron and
figure out how the flight timer function works, let me know. The
elapsed timer works fine but I've yet to figure out the button sequence
to get the flight timer (the one that can count up/down for approaches
and such...I think it's the "FT") to work. Strange because I can
usually figure these out even if I don't have an instruction manual.
Read the short Davtron manual and I come away with the feeling that I'm
just missing something when it comes to the FT function.

The Davtron was our first official upgrade for the Arrow. It was nice
to get rid of the inoperative analog clock in the dash and have OAT at
the push of a button.

Are you going to be at OSH and/or Jay and Mary's pre-OSH bash?


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-IA Student
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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Sorry, can't help you with the Davtron clock, we've just got a AstroTech L2
that drives us crazy enough. Sometime I'll have to let you help us change
the battery in that thing! With ours you have to keep punching the mode
button until you're cussing in about 4 languages to get 00:00:00 to come up,
then hit ST/SP.

I think aircraft clocks were one of those inventions that some bunch of
smart*ss engineers made over complicated out of jealously, they all really
wanted to be pilots but couldn't get passed the whole Bernoulli thing, so
they made these aircraft clocks just to **** us off.

Yep, I'll be at the RAP party at OSH. I'll be playing Montblack's chauffer,
driving him around to buy load of fud. Another partner in our Aztec has
also taken the day off from work, and my wife will also be there.

Jim

"Jack Allison" wrote in message
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Jim Burns wrote:
To mount our display in the panel, 6 feet
wouldn't be enough to get it out past the engine nacelles if we tried to
put
it in wing inspection panel.

Oh ya, you got one of them funny planes with engines on both sides of you!

I was curious as to where they'd mount our OAT probe and when I found it
thought "Well, that makes perfect sense". If you do get a Davtron and
figure out how the flight timer function works, let me know. The
elapsed timer works fine but I've yet to figure out the button sequence
to get the flight timer (the one that can count up/down for approaches
and such...I think it's the "FT") to work. Strange because I can
usually figure these out even if I don't have an instruction manual.
Read the short Davtron manual and I come away with the feeling that I'm
just missing something when it comes to the FT function.

The Davtron was our first official upgrade for the Arrow. It was nice
to get rid of the inoperative analog clock in the dash and have OAT at
the push of a button.

Are you going to be at OSH and/or Jay and Mary's pre-OSH bash?


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-IA Student
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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Jim Burns wrote:

I think aircraft clocks were one of those inventions that some bunch of
smart*ss engineers made over complicated out of jealously, they all really
wanted to be pilots but couldn't get passed the whole Bernoulli thing, so
they made these aircraft clocks just to **** us off.
Yep, gotta watch them engineers...hey, wait a sec, I R one. A software
guy though.


Yep, I'll be at the RAP party at OSH. I'll be playing Montblack's chauffer,
driving him around to buy load of fud.
Cool! Another name/face thing. You must be driving something bigger
than Paul's transmission-challenged minivan...or...we need a lot of fud.
Then again, maybe Paul just wants to feel important


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-IA Student
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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Hey Jim...we installed a Davtron in the Arrow. OAT probe is in the middle
of an inspection panel on the bottom of the left wing. IIRC, it's the
forward most panel and the first one from the bottom of the fuselage.

Hey -- that's a great idea. No holes drilled in the side, no wires through
the firewall!

Uh oh -- a new doohickey to get at OSH!

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
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