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Rex B
 
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Default 6 volt Hobbs meter

On 07 Jul 2004 20:58:06 GMT, S (Whunicut) wrote:

||To all who replied:
||This has been a real learning experience for me. Never heard of a Zener
before!
||There are many "off the shelf" gismos that will do the job and can get
||expensive.
||I like to tinker and experiment so I am going with
||
||1. resistor of; 1.99 ohms, 32.16 watts.
||2. Zener of 6v.24.12 watts.
||
|| I got these numbers at the Zener diode selector
||
||My meter would not register the spike for the rewind stage, so I hooked the
||Hobbs up to the battery charger switched to 6v in and 6amp. When the spike
||came, the meter jumped about 1.5 amps. I used 2000 mA for the diode selector.
||
||And to Kevin Gallimore...probably be a year. (90% done and 90% to go) But if
||you want a ride in the Marquart Charger, come on down and we will bore some
||holes in the sky!
||
||Regards and Thanks to All.
||Warren

Nice looking aircraft, Warren.
Do you have it apart, or what?

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