Dave,

I suspect that you are looking for a ready-made solution for measuring
pitch/roll. Perhaps something exists out there but I suspect that the price
would be high. If you are looking for something ready-to-go I can't help
you. If you have some electronic skills and some programming skills you can
build something that will work and most likely be way less costly than the
ready-made solutions.

There is a solid state sensor that is a two axis accelerometer made by
Analog Devices. It is the ADXL202 chip and you can find numererous
references to it with a google search on the part number. I have been
experimenting, on and off, with the device and a microprocessor for several
years and find it rather easy to interface and get working.

I am in the process of selling my home and plan to live-aboard and I have
sort of thought that a pitch/roll sensor would be a neat thing to do for a
"boat project" and I will visit this when I get set up on a boat. I would
consider a project of this type to be relatively simple to accomplish if one
had some electronic skills. All it would take is a ADXL, a simple micro and
a LCD display device and some programming to prototype a working instrument.

HTH

Vic

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| On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:16:54 +0800, Dave Baker
wrote:
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| Does anyone know of a pitch & roll sensor suitable for installation on a
| vessel? I need to log pitch & roll on a boat
|