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RE: Stall Warning

Subject: RE: Stall Warning
From: Miles McCallum <milesm@avnet.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 13:40:20

>Another option is to do the job with an electronic pressure sensor. The 
>mechanical version depends solely on the fact that the airflow is keeping the

>vane raised, when the airflow ceases at the stall the vane drops and makes 
>the switch. In effect it is a crude, but effective pressure switch. I would 
>think that a small tube mounted at the correct angle to leading edge with an 
>electronic pressure sensor at the other end and an appropriate circuit would 
>give the desired result. Once you have the tube in the correct position then 
>the electronic version has a benefit in that you can easily alter the 
>sensitivity of the system with the turn of a potentiometer.

This is sort of the scheme that Russ Light has designed, except that he has
found a 10 X 10 X1mm thick pressure sensor, and it is reference to static
pressure. I'll be seeing him in a couple of days, and try to hurry him
along. No point in several of us trying to reinvent the wheel.

Miles



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