Heck, my first thought was to take the gas gage & sendin unit out of my
'56 chevy , mount the sendin unit inside with some gears outa of my old
alarm clock-(spring busted) sos you get full travel outa the sender with
only ten or 20 degrees motion hang a n aluminium vane on the end of it &
a fishin sinker forward of it to balance it-You could keep the sinker
inside for essthetic reasons. ut then---this was jest my 1st thot--Jerry

RST Engineering - JIm wrote:
If somebody can tell me how to convert angle of attack to an
electrical signal, the rest is rather trivial.

Jim


"Mike" wrote in message
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Has anyone built an electronic angle of attack meter kit. It seems to
be something that would be easy to design but beyond my feeble
electronics background.

I have seen the products that are out there and they are simple
differential pressure gauges and are expensive. I don't like the
round differential pressure gauges that many of the companies offer
for this kind of system. I was wondering if there would be a way to
put something together that would light up different color LED's for
the different levels of lift that we could build at home without
having to pay out hundreds of dollars for a prebuilt one.




We used a reed switch array and a magnet to determine control rod
position on my submarine's reactor. You could do the same with an AOA
using a magnet on a vane. You'd only need a few reed switches, one for
each angle you were interested in: just before stall, best angle of
climb and best rate of climb corresponding to red, yellow and green
LED's. What else do you care about?