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Hi Jim,

Thanks for the information. Very good. You usually post your
remarkable fuel usage with great detail, so I'm a little curious do
you use a fuel flow sensor for these numbers fed into your EIS?

I'm consider replacing the majority of the analog gauges, ie. EGT
and CHT analog gauges with the EIS, and it seems you take advantage
of the whole package. I appreciate the information.

Thank you,

Mark

My panel is set up how I like it - It fits my scan and overall stays
pretty simple with the main info I need.

Panel Top L to R - Vert Card Compass * MicroAir 760 Radio
> Bottom L to R - ASI * EIS * T&B Coor
>
> 4 switches are: Master * Radio & EIS * Fuel Pump * T&B Gyro
> Then next is L Mag * R Mag * Start
>
> I have my GPS so I can see it without it interfering with my
frontal
> visibility. I use to have it up top of the panel, but it is much
> better visibility wise down where I now have it.
>
> The main panel of the EIS is set up with:
> Top - Eng RPM * Alt * Hi EGT
> Bottom - Oil Temp/Psi * VSI * Hi CHT
>
> You can look at a lot of individual numbers by scrolling throught
the
> EIS at anytime. The altimeter works prety well and I also match
it
> against the altimeter on my GPS - They stay pretty close. Took me
a
> couple of flights to get use to the Altimeter readout vs the gage,
> but it works pretty well and I now like it.
>
> As to the new exhaust system - I don't care for it at all and it
has
> already cracked again. I will be changing it out again soon. It
> only lasted about 39.4 hours before it cracked again, with the
crack
> being worse than the first one with 183 hrs on it, it didn't fit
> properly when I got it and it interfered with the CHT probes.
This
> seems to be a problem that several of us with the HKS seem to be
> having. I am taking the first setup which I liked much better and
> which seemed to be have more power output (not sure why) and am
going
> to put a ball joint at the "X" joint, redo the slip joint where
the
> muffler and pipes come together, and put a second support on the
> muffler to relieve some of the pressure weight of the muffler on
the
> pipes. Hopefully I'll have this done over the next couple of
weeks.
> Once I test it and see how it is going to hold up, I'll post
another
> pic. I'll go ahead and throw a pic of the cracks up there in a
few
> minutes as well so you can see what one of my problems are. The
> engine runs fantastic, if I can just get this exhaust problem
worked
> out.
>
> Jim C

I don't have the fuel flow option on my EIS - That option was more
money than what I wanted to pay. My fuel numbers are based on total
useage versus total time the engine was run, including ground time,
t/o, climb, cruise, decent, and messing around. The difference
bewteen 1.8 gph and 2.6 gph is dependent on what rpm I run at. The
fuel flow would help to monitor that in flight, but I figure gas
timewise and use a mirror system to actually look at whats in the
fuel tank - I generally don't fly at just one speed very long anyway -
I like to play too much. I plan at 2.6 gph, but usually average
about 2.1 at 5200 to 5300 rpm. If I am running in the 65-75 mph
speed range (usually in the 4200-4800 rpm range) I am usualy at 1.8-
2.0 gph range, when at 80-90 (usually in the 5100-5300 range) about
2.1-2.2 gph useage and when up about 95 or so (usually in the 5500-
5600 range) I am usually around 2.5 as a norm. Hope this makes some
sense.

Jim C

Jim, can you translate that to mpg at those different throttle settings?

Jay D

--- In ThunderGull@yahoogroups.com, "Jay D" <jdewberry@p...> wrote:
> Jim, can you translate that to mpg at those different throttle
settings?

Jay

I haven't really done that to a specific rpm - I have tracked the mpg
on each trip I have taken and I have been as low as 31 and as high as
39 mpg but most of the time I normally average a little more than 34.

Jim C