Engine Hour meter with NMEA output?
 

Almost finished with my microcontroller fuel based management system and
stil have the USART pins free. I am storing the gallons transferred in
EEPROM but it would be nice to have a time base to store with them. If I
had the engine hours for each transfer I could calculate average fuel
consumption and a lot of other interesting tidbits. Anyone know of an hour
meter that has digital output?

--
Glenn Ashmore

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On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 20:23:33 -0400, "Glenn Ashmore"
wrote:

Almost finished with my microcontroller fuel based management system and
stil have the USART pins free. I am storing the gallons transferred in
EEPROM but it would be nice to have a time base to store with them. If I
had the engine hours for each transfer I could calculate average fuel
consumption and a lot of other interesting tidbits. Anyone know of an hour
meter that has digital output?

CruzPro has one with nmea output as well as a tach function.

http://www.cruzpro.com/rh30.html

Not exactly what you are looking for, but you could probably hack it
into what you want.


__________________________________________________ __________
Glen "Wiley" Wilson usenet1 SPAMNIX at world wide wiley dot com
To reply, lose the capitals and do the obvious.

Take a look at cpRepeater, my NMEA data integrator, repeater, and
logger at http://www.worldwidewiley.com/

The CruzPro RH30 and RH110 digital RPM/engine hours gauge outputs a
proprietary NMEA sentence that contains:

RH30/RH110 Digital RPM/Engine hours gauge sample sentence:

$PBVE,BEAAADAAABFKBCIIBDAGOOABAAAAADAAAAOIACAAONFM AKCAADAAAAHG


Parse as:
$PBVE, B E AA ADAA AB FKBC IIBD AGOO AB AAAA AD AAAA OIAC AA
ON FMAK CA AD AAAA HG

B = Product Code (B= RH30)
E = Software Version
AA = Spare NMV Byte (Ignore)
ADAA = Display Damping
AB = Ignore
FKBC = Maximum RPM seen from last reset
IIBD = High RPM Alarm value
AGOO = Clock Speed Calibration #
AB = Backlight Level
AAAA = Maintenance count-down alarm
AD = Engine Minutes
AAAA = Engine Hours
OIAC = RPM Calibration number
AA = Mode
AN = Non voltatile memory checksum
FMAK = RPM
CA = Elapsed Seconds
AD = Elapsed Minutes
AAAA = Elapsed Hours
HG = NMEA Sentence checksum

Where A=0, B=1, C=2, ... , O=14, P=15

Decode RPM as:
FMAK = 16*F + M + 4096*A + 256*K
FMAK = 16*5 + 12 + 4096*0 +256*10
FMAK = 2652 RPM


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Best Regards,

Bert van den Berg
CruzPro Ltd.
www.cruzpro.com
35 Keeling Road, #A4
Henderson 1008
New Zealand
Tel: 64-9-838-3331
Fax: 64-9-838-3332



"Glen "Wiley" Wilson" wrote in
message ...
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 20:23:33 -0400, "Glenn Ashmore"
wrote:

Almost finished with my microcontroller fuel based management system and
stil have the USART pins free. I am storing the gallons transferred in
EEPROM but it would be nice to have a time base to store with them. If
I
had the engine hours for each transfer I could calculate average fuel
consumption and a lot of other interesting tidbits. Anyone know of an
hour
meter that has digital output?

CruzPro has one with nmea output as well as a tach function.

http://www.cruzpro.com/rh30.html

Not exactly what you are looking for, but you could probably hack it
into what you want.


__________________________________________________ __________
Glen "Wiley" Wilson usenet1 SPAMNIX at world wide wiley dot com
To reply, lose the capitals and do the obvious.

Take a look at cpRepeater, my NMEA data integrator, repeater, and
logger at http://www.worldwidewiley.com/