norm doty wrote:

the pressure sensor in the bottom of the tank has 1 major disadvantage in
that at anything  other than 1 g the reading would be wrong, so decending or
acending or most banking the pressure is wrong.

Norm & Monda
Cozy MK IV #202
Ford V-6 Powered

Scott Gettings wrote:

OK, so why not just average or damp the signal over 10 seconds or so, which would
take out most or all of the intermittent g forces, sloshing, inequality from slips,
etc., which are certainly also present in a mechanical sensor?

Isn't the logic circuitry for something like this very simple?  It would certainly
make measuring long, thin, wing tanks with a lot of dihedral much easier -- and no
moving parts.  The availability of an inexpensive, gas-tolerant sensor in the right
pressure range would seem to be the major limiting factor.

Scott Gettings

 
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