pretty much what the title says... i'd love to be able to make a fuel guage from a WWII plane work in a car i don't even have yet... WWII planes used 24 volt it seems, and we use 12... any ideas?
get two group 22 batteries, run them in series - take everything but the gauges off of ONE battery, and feed the guages from BOTH before there were such a plethora of driving lights, we used to use surplus landing lights on our "desert runners" - those were 24 volt and we just put two batteries in and drove as fast as we wanted without driving past our beams. "let there be light" dj
Don't fuel guages work on a ground system? Power to guage and ground to sender. I know I've been runnin my 6V guage in my F-1 for 33 years with a 12V system.......Works just fine!.........OLDBEET
That'll be pretty cool set-up there chromed rat. The smaller aircraft from that time used a float in the tank type setup. The big stuff used a capacitance probe for the quantity. How many pounds of fuel will ride hold?
car's only in my sketch book... i'm thinking P-61 black widow night fighter... wanna do something T-riffic, track nose, fab an early aircraft type windshield, like a widened stearman's (have 2/3 of one from a crashed plane to look from!), open wheeled, maybe bob a couple inches off the back, suicide front, lotta dzus fasteners and some other stuff, all blacked out.. really don't wanna build a "theme" car, but just want to have a strong reference to a fairly obscure WWII plane that hopefully nobody will ever get. despite how it might sound, i do wanna strive for some restraint and taste, nothing too god awful and gaudy. figure if that's all going down, might as well have some guages that fit the bill... as far as fuel capacity, i have several jerry cans... thought about flushing them, and combining them into one tank, maybe with short sections of 2-3" tube. probably 3 or 4, so we're talking 15-20 gallons of gas. given how they were flown, i figure a wildcat and corsair wouldn't have a float in their tanks... prop strike, can ya enlighten me a little on the capacitance probe bit? i'm dumber than a box of rocks when it comes to anything beyond the basics of car electrics... kool on the conversion site. i'll keep that in mind fer sure....
Keep us posted on your project. I like the windscreen idea and have kicked around that style myself. There was a helicopter oil tank on ebay awhile back that might have made a cool tank for an aircraft inspired rod. I look on ebay for interesting tanks for thinkin' projects.
Looked for info on Auto Avionics in Monterey and didn't see anything. I'm interested in what you got. Pictures? Maybe some contact info or website? I'm interested in learning a little more about the possibities. I don't like too many guages on the market right now and have been thinking about piecing some aircraft guages together and trying to make them work for my Model A. I like the style of the Wings SW gages, but have been hearing horror stories about quality lately. So give us the low down...
Sorry. I looked up Auto Avionics on the net and that is the town it showed. I dug out my catalog and it says Monmouth Beach, NJ 201.870.9541
Capacitance probes are different. They don't have a float arm like a car. They are just a straight tube sticking down in the tank and has several different point where it makes contact using the fuel to complete the circuit. That's the simplified version. But Dave is our spark chaser so listen to him......he knows.
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