John Bonnett
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| posted on 15/4/08 at 08:11 AM |
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Under Bonnet Temperature Monitoring
Good Morning All
I am making strenuous efforts to reduce under-bonnet temperature and to ensure that inlet air to the engine is cool under all conditions.
I would be very grateful if anybody could point me in the direction of a continuous temperature monitor with a probe that could be located, for
example, in the air filter and a readout on the dashboard. This would enable me to measure my success(or failure).
I have done a search of previous threads but could not find anything. As ever, your advice and help will be very much appreciated.
John
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Humbug
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| posted on 15/4/08 at 08:28 AM |
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Not sure what temp range it would have, but how about one of the digital (house) thermometers which have a sensor on the end of a wire? We've
got one which certainly registered more than 50 deg C when we went to Death Valley 
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RazMan
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| posted on 15/4/08 at 08:28 AM |
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Depending on your budget, you could get one of the Fluke meter range - most have a socket for standard thermocouple.
Failing that Halfrauds sell a few 'inside & outside' digital thermometers which have external thermocouples and only cost a fiver.
Cheers,
Raz
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indykid
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| posted on 15/4/08 at 08:28 AM |
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if you have a gunsons multimeter, you can get a thermocouple for them. you'd probably have to extend the leads though and i don't know how
that would affect the calibration.
tom
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Bluemoon
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| posted on 15/4/08 at 08:31 AM |
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Argos had a DVM with an external thermocouple (us it at work, actually not a bad meter would be good for odd electrical stuff on the car as well)..
About 17Quid I think, bit of Velcro on the back should see you sorted..
Dan
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tegwin
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| posted on 15/4/08 at 08:39 AM |
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Maplins do a temperature probe:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=3261&doy=15m4
It can be programed to sound an alarm on high/low preset temps....
Cheap too!
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John Bonnett
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| posted on 15/4/08 at 08:45 AM |
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Thank you all for you replies. What a fantastic data base we have; it never ceases to amaze me that no matter how oddball the question there is always
a number of people who can come up with the answer.
I've spoken to Pete Jones at Jondel who built my engine and he said 30C was a maximum for the temperature of air going in to the engine so a
sensor with a +50C top end should do the trick. Pete said think how you would feel if the air temperature was 50+ which was what I was seeing and he
said the engine will behave in the same way.
With your replies you have given me plenty of choice so thank you all.
John
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DaveFJ
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| posted on 15/4/08 at 08:52 AM |
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Any one know the air velocity of an unladen swallow?
Mines the dirty mac with the grass stains...
Dave
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iank
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| posted on 15/4/08 at 09:25 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by DaveFJ
Any one know the air velocity of an unladen swallow?
Mines the dirty mac with the grass stains...
Here you go. Both for African and European birds. 24mph
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
[Edited on 15/4/08 by iank]
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britishtrident
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| posted on 15/4/08 at 03:13 PM |
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Maplin have all sorts of probes for this sort of measurement, many only go up to 55c others cover the range -5 to 200c
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