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  1. danny_galaga
    Detecting CO2?
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    Yes I'll check them too. Have to get a capacitor from there anyway
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    Yes, definitely a matter of not buying critical stuff from eBay or Ali express. If you get it from a reputable source, it's still going to be made in china but to an OEM or high standard. I think even my skyecho2 is made in china, but if I saw one for half the price on eBay or Ali, well I think I'd give it a miss 😄
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    Ok then I'll pay Bunnings aerospace a visit for some star washers 🙂
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    Yes, it's from Sert Efrika
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    https://hackaday.com/2023/02/18/anatomy-of-a-fake-co2-sensor/
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    Or lack thereof! I bought two brass bus bars for my instrument panel ages ago and noted a lack of washers. Figured I'd cross that bridge later. Well it's later 😄 I'm pretty sure when I was an auto electrician, bus bars would come with star washers. But maybe I could get away with Loctite? I was trying in earnest to keep as much steel as possible away from the panel because of the compass. But now I realise my engine VDO type engine instruments (Aviasport) have nice big steel brackets to hold them in place! So what would a few tiny zinc star washers matter? Thoughts?
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    This seems such a pity. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/antonovs-in-america-3916822/
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    "I'm making a habit of it" 😂 Nice to have those fields around. My kinda airfield. Glad he sorted it out 🙂
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    It's looking good so far 🙂 I like that it looks 'sonex'. They aren't the prettiest, but the shape is part of the brand I think . And actually, being high wing improves the look
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    I ended up getting a Lenovo m8. Some of my geeky friends recommended it as really good value for money. And googling around, I found at least one pilot using one. And air Norway or something use fancier Lenovo's exclusively for their EFG 😃 I live somewhere between Archerfield and Brisbane, so that's been handy for testing! @coljones VID_20230212_222710.mp4
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    Yep, already wired the supplied pot remotely with a view to measuring and replacing with a fixed value. Great minds eh 😃 Cooling will be fine. It's why I bought a kit. I looked at how to work out what sized heat sink I would need and the maths didn't look fun 😄 Note that there are more caps than needed. The kit covers a few bases, including an LCD voltage meter. I left out what I KNEW I didn't need, and left in what I wasn't sure about. The fan was powered by a lm7812 to give it a constant 12v . Since I'm only feeding it 12v I just left it out and bridged it. Fan wails like a banshee though, I'm sure it doesn't need to be THAT fast! So might put in a 1-5 ohm resistor to take the edge off it...
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    Just put together the little kit, leaving out the bits I didn't think I needed (rectifier, voltage display etc) . Worked. Tried to put a load on it by connecting a USB powered desk lamp. Weird performance but I put it down to the fact I was getting a 12v supply from a 240v switch mode supply. Then I did something and I think I killed it. Are lm338 easy to kill?
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    I guess what I'm driving at is that it would probably be the same process for a fake 912 from China. In which case I would feel safer behind a well documented used real 912.
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    Could be taking samples for testing?
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    Is it possible to fit an 'on condition' engine on a 24 rego plane?
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    And one more thing. I think on a phone nowadays 64gb is the bare minimum, since the OS is over 20gb just on its own. What sizes are you guys at, on tablets a year or so old or less? Bearing in mind I won't be using it for anything else... And was that about gdl90 again? Is that something any modern tablet can use, or has, or whatever?
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    Ok, so built in GPS, but not necessarily phone. I guess it won't use the skyecho2 GPS in the same way?
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    Just to be clear on the tablets - they need a SIM to navigate, right?
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    As good a reason as any to get the skyecho2 if it at least reduces the risk of this 😲 https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/drone-collision-report-issued/ Imagine if that had hit the windscreen
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    I'm only ra-aus now, and probably just using it in the one plane. Looks like I left some important details when I emailed casa so I'll just wait for them to respond and give them serial numbers etc then.
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    Oh, that was easy 😃 Thanks kgwilson for the heads up on Enroute Flight Navigator. This gives me a free way to fiddle, and maybe even just stick with that, although I guess ozplan etc have ersa etc built in.
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    Ok, so ive charged it up using a genuine phone charger (as opposed to a $2 jobbie from eBay). Now what 😄 The instructions say it will need an ICAO number. I've emailed casa about that but I guess in the meantime, since my plane isn't even airworthy yet, I can still play with it and see other aircraft in an efb?
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    Heatsink isn't huge, but is designed around this fan, which mounts on posts. That should make it lighter than just a big passive sink I imagine. The kit has things I don't need so I'll leave those out. I just thought it would be easier to get something already designed than try and work out what sort of heat sink I need 🙂
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    So a good quality 2amp charger is fine, or your PC. So it looks like I CAN pilfer my charger stash after all 😃
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