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Aviation Forum / General / Soaring / July 2009Soaring Aids Variometer
I have an old Soaring Aids variometer that I am installing in the Cherokee. It has ports on the back for static/TE and capacity flasks. They are not labeled. One is red and the other is green. Any ideas on which is which? Thanks! -Tony Condon Cherokee II N373Y >I have an old Soaring Aids variometer that I am installing in the Cherokee. > It has ports on the back for static/TE and capacity flasks. They are not [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >-Tony Condon >Cherokee II N373Y The simple answer is: Connect it to the capacity (any way round will do). Take the instrument and bottle to any elevator/lift. Press the UP button and note the reading. If it says Sink then it is the wrong way round! Tim Newport-Peace tnp@spsys.demon.co.uk "Indecision is the Key to Flexibility." Tim - Easy enough I suppose. when I first got the Cherokee it had an old Crossfeld electric vario in it. the audio part didnt work. Either the flask or the battery was hooked up backwards and when I was in lift it showed down and when I was in sink it showed lift. Also, the scale was way off. The highest I ever saw was like 2 feet per second but usually it was between 1/2 and 1 fps (down) when i was in lift that was stronger than that. I actually learned how to read that old thing and got fairly good at working lift with it. -Tony Condon Cherokee II N373Y I sold Soaring Aids Variometers many years ago (20 + years or more) they were made by Marvin Willis in Arlington Texas..these were even then an old design but a lot of us liked them back then....always worked pretty well at the time..if you'll drop me a note I'll give you a Tel# you might try... tim  SignaturePlease visit the Wings & Wheels website at www.wingsandwheels.com > Tim - > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > -Tony Condon > Cherokee II N373Y If the ports are on opposite sides of the case, you can hold you hand in front of one port and walk around your house. It will show up when you block your walking speed from the static connection. You could do a similar thing by connecting a piece of tubing to it and bending it around so it points back as you walk. Again, the vario will show up when the capacity port is open to your walking dynamic pressure. This is probably safer than taking a battery, wires, and a suspicious looking package to a tall building and trying to use the express elevator to get to the top floor. Steve Leonard > If the ports are on opposite sides of the case, you can hold you hand in > front of one port and walk around your house. It will show up when you [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Steve Leonard You crack me up Steve! And I missed you at IVSM In article <a411dc28-b7ca-45e5-a1c5-aac0403e79b7@h2g2000yqg.googlegroups .com>, wby0nder@aol.com writes >> If the ports are on opposite sides of the case, you can hold you hand in >> front of one port and walk around your house. It will show up when you [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >You crack me up Steve! And I missed you at IVSM Actually, Express Elevators are not nearly as good for this as the old fashioned maximum capacity 4 persons concertina doored devices that have almost disappeared now. These have a constant speed unlike the express elevators that have programmed acceleration. Years ago, there was one of these in a London Gents Outfitters (Horne Bros, Tottenham Court Road) that had been surreptitiously calibrated for the purpose testing Varios. Tim Newport-Peace tnp@spsys.demon.co.uk "Indecision is the Key to Flexibility." <snip> >Years ago, there was one of these in a London Gents Outfitters (Horne >Bros, Tottenham Court Road) that had been surreptitiously calibrated for >the purpose testing Varios. For some reason I cannot imaging you ever going near a Gents Outfitters - at least not to buy clothes! Did they ever work out what their lift was being used for? And did it have a lift operator? SignatureSurfer! Email to: ramwater at uk2 dot net ><snip> >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >For some reason I cannot imaging you ever going near a Gents Outfitters >- at least not to buy clothes! No, not Horne Bros. But neither Anderson and Shepherd nor Gieves and Hawkes (both Savile Row) have lifts. >Did they ever work out what their lift >was being used for? Not as far as I know. >And did it have a lift operator? Fortunately not. Tim Newport-Peace tnp@spsys.demon.co.uk "May you be cursed with a chronic anxiety about the weather." John Burroughs (1837-1921). >X-no-archive: yes >><snip> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >No, not Horne Bros. But neither Anderson and Shepherd nor Gieves and >Hawkes (both Savile Row) have lifts. Are you telling us you used to wear Saville Row kit? !!!!!! :O How times have changed... :) <snip> SignatureSurfer! Email to: ramwater at uk2 dot net |
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