EGT sensor life

Sandy sganz at wgn.net
Fri Mar 13 02:05:30 GMT 1998


Get an aircraft spruce catalog, $5 I think, and the have a 'plethora' of
gauges and thermo's. 

Sandy

At 07:11 AM 3/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Charles,
>
>Have you looked into aircraft style EGT gauges?
>
>Zack
>
>
>Charles wrote:
>
>> 
>>         I have a thermocouple in the exhaust manifold of my BMW 745i,
>> upstream of the turbo. It's a 1/8" diameter stainless probe for quick
>> response times. They only seem to last about 40 hours though (the
>> sealed end burns right off). Temps are usually around 1200 F at
>> cruise, and as high as 1650 F with 15 psi boost. I've tried 321
>> stainless and Inconel, both give up eventually. At $40 apiece from
>> Omega Engineering, this is an expensive hobby...
>> -Charles
>
>



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