From: "Scet"

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Dan, we went through this early last year I think it was and Tarver was
shown to be wrong as per normal. On T56 engines the thermocouples are
connected in parallel and pick up TIT, the signal is then averaged. They
are averaged due to the non-uniform temperatures that occur at the turbine
inlet due to the short time of spraying fuel from the nozzle, to fuel
ignition, to introducing the hot gasses at high velocity to the turbine
inlet. The hot gases are not completely mixed and so there are some
stratifications of hotter and cooler areas at the turbine inlet. The
temperature averaging function of the parallel thermocouple circuits
compensates for these non-uniform temperatures.

Scet


Oh, heck, and I bet I missed a bunch of tarverisms.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired