Thu, 21 Jan 1999 07:46:00 +0100 - Message No. 4814
>From: Marcel_Sieling@mausd.gun.de (Marcel Sieling)

Subject: Fuel meter...


Hi,

>There is a German guy who owns a fantastic site (or so it seems to me),
>that made a fuel meter for his BMW GS. Now, the problem is I don't speak
>shit in German, so could anyone take a look at his site and tell us if
>he found any interesting info about it? Take a look at this guys
>cockpit: http://www.zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~possi/hpn/hpn_newdash.jpg
>
>The site is this: http://www.zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~possi/

First: Possis Pages have moved to http://possi.home.pages.de. Please change
your bookmarks!

Second: His site is indeed one of my all time favorites. ;-) Many good
pictures.

The fuel meter works as follows: A simple Sigma bicycle computer (e.g.
BC7000) is used in conjunction with a inductive flowmeter unit, which is
put into the fuel line which comes from the tank to the carburetors. A
little electronic device in between converts the signal from the flowmeter
to some signal, which the bicycle computer can understand. Then you have to
calibrate the bicycle computer in the way, that it shows 1km/h, if 1l/h
fuel is flowing. If that is done, you can easily watch your momentary fuel
consumtion in l/h, your consumed liters of the current tank filling in l,
your maximum and average fuel consumption in l/h and you can therefore
estimate, how long your current tank will carry on driving you. A great
thing IMHO. It costs about 60 Euro, about 30 for the fuel meter, 20 for the
bicycle computer and about 10 for the electronics, which you have to
assemble by yourself (no kit available).

take care - Marcello.




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