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Source: 8.6 to 16.5 Volts DC
Consumption: 530mA @ 12Volts DC

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Width: 158mm 6.22" Height: 42mm1.65" Weight: 680g 1.5 pound.

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Bruce

Yes I have heard of them as well as a half dozen others.

They don't give you what you want to know on the instrument
panel. They are also way more money than the PC solution.
The PC can store 64 Gig on just one USB stick. Not just 500K.
It can also log data every second.

Closed loop O2 control does not work with 100LL aviation
fuel. The lead contaminates the O2 sensor.

The fact of the matter is the modern $80 PC Intel Atom mother board is
ten times as powerful as the processor your likely to find in these
automotive ECU's. When you add the $90 Hytek you have a total of 3
processors all working together.

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Here is the specs for the 2 rotor version.

Paul Lamar


Hi Paul!

Thanks for your hard work in this forum.

You are heading the right direction with the PC solution.

I was once close friends with Jim Munn, the owner of MOTEC USA in
Huntington Beach CA. He provided the ECU to Mazda for the Le Mans
winning 4 rotor car back in the early ninetys. (For marketing
reasons, the manufacturers did not allow MOTEC to put their name on
the race cars).
I am writing to address all those who keep bringing up these race
car ecu units unnecessarily. Aircraft simply do not need what the
MOTEC, or any of the other highly capable units for race/street
performance cars can do. Even the lowly home built Mega Squirt is
more than is needed. (I own two of those)
Think about this folks, what Paul is doing with the PC solution is
far superior to any of the automotive units. He will potentially be
providing users with capability to interface all of the functions of
the aircraft, directly on the instrument panel, not just the engine,
or monitoring flap angle, airspeed, etc. But we would be able to use
it to control everything, even flying the plane remotely, or with
auto pilot operated from the PC board; just on one of these small
fast PC board setups.
Imagine getting into your craft, turning on the ignition, and
looking at a 15" computer monitor that you built into your dash, and
seeing hundreds of data streams on display, access to pinhole mini
cameras mounted in you cowling, or anywhere else!

This is transformative, it is revolutionary to the experimental
home built industry. I truly hope some of you programmers join in
with Paul to make it a reality.

Ed Carver


Racing Beat sells and supports the Motec unit and it is a very good
unit.
Price however is about $1,800.

Thanks Ed for your understanding on this issue. I might also point out
that there are some very sophisticated moving map programs out there
that will run on the same type of PC mother board and hardware. Some
show the terrain you are flying over in 3dwith all obstructions
shown so this is a monumental advantage in low visibility conditions.

http://www.navzilla.com/

I wrote my first articles for Kitplanes on this subject back in 1988
1989.

The Home Built Glass Cockpit by Paul Lamar
Kitplanes
June 1988 page 69
The future can be here now: electronic
instrument displays in your homebuilt.

Glass Cockpit: Part II by Paul Lamar
Kitplanes
January 1989 page 66
Automatic position reporting could be helpful
when pilot's hands and mind are full.

Paul Lamar



HEY PAUL!!!!!!

I just felt saying THANKS A LOT FOR LETTING THE REST OF
TAG ALONG FOR A GREAT RIDE!!!!!![YOU'RE THE MAN!]

Gene Kahn


Here are some pictures of my late 1980's glass cockpit in the C182
with a 8088 mother board. Updated the map every second written
in QB under DOS no less. I would use QB again and DOS if it
supported USB but it won't so Linux and C it is.


Paul Lamar

Paul,

This is good information to know. This was why I was asking what the main
objective was so I didn't go over the same material that you had already
explored and ruled in or out. That is not helpful to you so let me say this,
if you have an area or an item or a piece or part you need help on to search
for, I will be happy to help you. I have a better picture now of what I
think you are trying to achieve however I don't know what you already have
or where you are. In other words, say you have a monitor and a keyboard but
you want an integrated touch screen or look at several to make a choice of,
give me some idea of your specs and I can search them out and provide you
with as many as I can find to chose from. As it is, it's not helpful to you,
to have people throw stuff at you when you've already passed that stage of
development. Also maybe you already have research people who are helping you
on specific things and you don't need anymore input that's fine too. I have
plenty of my own proprietary projects that I work on so there are no hard
feelings.

I do want to commend you for doing this and wouldn't it be nice to have full
control and visibility (transparency as it's now called in politics) of our
autos and not get just an idiot light for all the bucks we pay for a car let
alone a plane.I mean we should at least have a switch for "idiot" or "full
view" for those of us who want to look in and see all the registers we can.
We can then switch it back to "idiot" or "MIL light" and go back to sleep at
the wheel on those long trips on I-15. The Auto Cartels act as though we are
going to steal something if we know what we are actually dealing with when
we take our cars into the shop. As it is we are blind victims.

I like following your posts though. If you have a story about your research
and where you've come from and where you're going to, it would be
interesting. I like the story about your 182 with the 8088 with QB and DOS.
Back when a dual 360kb floppy or a 10mb HD was tall cotton. You were far
ahead of your time even back then.

Bruce

What I need is some C programmers. The hard ware is pretty much
cast in concrete.

Paul Lamar