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Post subject: Re: How hot are bizjet pitot tubes?  Posted: 29 May 2019, 10:15 |
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Username Protected wrote: how hot do these get??? "Meat-Leaving Hot" 
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Post subject: Re: How hot are bizjet pitot tubes? Posted: 29 May 2019, 10:25 |
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Username Protected wrote: how hot do these get??? Very, at 0 KIAS. Heating element can be > 100 watts. It has to reach well over freezing in -30 C air going 300 knots. You could build it with a thermostat to limit the high temperature, but that's another thing to fail. Mike C.
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Post subject: Re: How hot are bizjet pitot tubes? Posted: 29 May 2019, 12:55 |
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Username Protected wrote: Wow, chrome turns blue about 1000F. Think motorcycle exhausts...
--paul The type I work around (Lear) aren’t chrome. They’re a dull light brown color. The bluing is from leaving them on too long on the ground.
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Post subject: Re: How hot are bizjet pitot tubes? Posted: 29 May 2019, 12:56 |
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Username Protected wrote: Wow, chrome turns blue about 1000F. Think motorcycle exhausts...
--paul The type I work around (Lear) aren’t chrome. They’re a dull light brown color. The bluing is from leaving them on too long on the ground.
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Post subject: Re: How hot are bizjet pitot tubes? Posted: 29 May 2019, 13:02 |
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Username Protected wrote: You could build it with a thermostat to limit the high temperature, but that's another thing to fail. Yep- some airplanes' heaters have a controller to do that for you (mostly for when you're on the ground). That tends to keep the pitot tubes at a temperature of approximately 2nd~ish degree burn (instead of an instant 3rd). 
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Post subject: Re: How hot are bizjet pitot tubes? Posted: 01 Jun 2019, 14:18 |
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During troubleshooting on the Piper Meridian, I pointed the Chinese IR thermometer at the tubes on the ground and got 150 degrees f on both. I do not recall if the tubes get more current when the plane is in the air. If a failure occurs, they could possibly get high current on the ground, but normally a warning would be prudent.
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Post subject: Re: How hot are bizjet pitot tubes? Posted: 02 Jun 2019, 09:24 |
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TBMs pitots have a lower output when on the ground so they dont come too hot. Never replaced one in 1500 hrs. Username Protected wrote: You could build it with a thermostat to limit the high temperature, but that's another thing to fail. Yep- some airplanes' heaters have a controller to do that for you (mostly for when you're on the ground). That tends to keep the pitot tubes at a temperature of approximately 2nd~ish degree burn (instead of an instant 3rd).
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Post subject: Re: How hot are bizjet pitot tubes? Posted: 02 Jun 2019, 09:35 |
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Username Protected wrote: Turn that sucker on and hold my beer! 
Mark, don't touch the stove.
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Post subject: Re: How hot are bizjet pitot tubes? Posted: 02 Jun 2019, 09:42 |
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Username Protected wrote: Turn that sucker on and hold my beer!
Mark, don't touch the stove.
Mark, ..."
Agh...just don’t stand there! Pour my beer on my hand!
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Post subject: Re: How hot are bizjet pitot tubes? Posted: 13 Jun 2019, 13:10 |
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Username Protected wrote: The Multi-Function probes (like pitot/static probes, but with more holes for sensing AOA & sideslip in addition to static press) on our Gulfstreams are regulated to 150 deg C. They look almost exactly like the one pictured above (same manufacturer). We have 4 of those.
We turn them on after engine start & leave them on until after landing. That's why they're all purple. Unless there's freezing precip ours were always runway items.
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