dear Naimites,
I'm apologising because I post a request of help (or suggestion) bit far from our audiophile interests,
but, having read in the past, that some of you are electronic experts,
maybe I will have a support on a project I would develop for my (other) hobby.
Having recently melted the engine bronze bearing of my vintage car of 70+ years old,
I wish to have in future 2 temperatures monitored (engine oil and engine water coolant) on a simple LCD or a digit display.
Exists a way for doing this easily with Arduino?
Or exist an even better and simpler programming environment and related hardware?
Of course, some fanatics are using vintage capillary thermometers (far to be reliable), but I and some enthusiast in my club wish to have an electronic and more sophisticated solution for implement in future more useful features in order to drive safer such of vintage cars.
All devices must be easily removed during concourse (apart thermocouples), but this is another story...
ATB
Posted on: 24 June 2017 by Cbr600
Why not just purchase a proprietary digital temp monitor that utilises your thermocouple leads?
companies like RS components and many others sell these at very low cost
Posted on: 24 June 2017 by bicela
Thanks CBR600, not easy to find ones compact and with 2 thermocouples inputs, we bought this for the first test.
But we can't implements any feature (the idea is to develop some thresholds alarms and other stuffs, avoiding to have always an eye on the indicators).
Posted on: 24 June 2017 by bicela
Dear Paul, that's a genial solution! Many thanks, I will buy the E3 Universal Engine Monitor that provide even more useful informations.
Posted on: 25 June 2017 by Huge
If you can justify the cost (and I suspect for the application that the answer is yes) then Paul's idea is a really good one.
I could easily design a project to achieve the same, but an item of aircraft quality instrumentation will always be far more reliable than anything I could build It'll also lot more robust to cope with periodic removal and re-installation.
Posted on: 25 June 2017 by bicela
Dear Huge,
I appreciate you kindness, thanks.
Paul, what's more... You have email. Thank you of course as well!
ATB