Air Temperature Sensor

pacecapt

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I am considering adding a generic Air Temp sensor inside the engine compartment on my Experimental Aircraft. I have a two wire sensor (like you would use on a Grill) that I would like to connect to my Dynon HDX system. Any recommendations on which leads to connect it? There is currently no other air temp sensors that I could get the data from.
 

GKC Aviation

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I don't know if the grill sensor would work, but the below if from the manual.
It can't hurt to hook it up to the general purpose temp sensor pins and try different configurations.

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Rhino

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If it's a thermocouple, it should work. Thermistor might as well. Either way, you'll have to experiment to get the readings you want.
 

maartenversteeg

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Note that thermocouples generate a very small voltage (mVolts) and thermistors are a variable resistance, so these two need very different circuits.
 
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