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EGT Myths Debunked Understanding Exhaust Gas Temperatures by MIKE BUSCH MIKE BUSCH HANDS ON / SAVVY AVIATOR EGT Myths Debunked Understanding exhaust gas temperatures BY MIKE BUSCH PILOTS STILL SEEM TO have a lot of misconceptions about exhaust gas (See Figure 1). As the pilot leaned the temperature (EGT). Let’s see if we can clear some of them up. engine, the EGT needle rose to a peak value These days, pilots of piston-powered aircraft seem to be fi xated on the meter, then started to fall off . The upon EGT. Scarcely a day goes by that I don’t receive a phone call, pilot would note where the needle peaked, e-mail, or support ticket asking some EGT-related question. then would richen until the needle dropped Pilots will send me a list of EGT readings for each of their cylin- by the desired number of tick marks (e.g., ders and ask me if I think they look okay, whether I think their EGTs three for 75 degrees Fahrenheit). The gauge are too high, what maximum EGT limit I recommend, why their provided the pilot no way to determine the EGTs seem to be higher in the winter than in the summer, or why absolute value of EGT (e.g., 1,475 degrees), the EGTs on their 1972 Cessna 182 are so much higher than the ones but only its relative value (e.g., 75 degrees on their friend’s 1977 model. They’ll voice concern that the individ- rich of peak). ual cylinders on their engine have such diverse EGT readings, worry Hundere understood that the absolute that the spread between the highest and lowest EGT is excessive, value of EGT is not particularly meaningful and ask for advice on how to bring them closer together. They’ll (we’ll see why shortly), and that presenting complain that they are unable to transition from rich-of-peak (ROP) this information to the pilot would simply to lean-of-peak (LOP) operation without producing EGTs that are be a distraction. Since the Alcor EGT unacceptably high. gauges provided no absolute temperature Each of these questions reveals a fundamental misunderstanding information, pilots never worried about of what EGT measures, what it means, and how it is interpreted. whether their EGTs were too high or what Let me attempt to clear up some of this confusion by asking you to the maximum EGT limit should be—and forget everything you thought you knew about EGT and start at that was a good thing. the beginning. The fi rst probe-per-cylinder engine analyzers introduced by Alcor and Bill A LITTLE HISTORY Simkinson’s KS Avionics were arrays of When petroleum engineer Al Hundere introduced the fi rst EGT vertical analog meter movements, and they instrumentation for piston-aircraft engines in the 1960s, he did also provided only relative EGT something quite clever. The analog EGT gauges manufactured by his information to the pilot. When John company Alcor (and widely installed by Beech, Cessna, Mooney, Youngquist introduced the original Insight Piper, and other aircraft manufacturers) had no absolute tempera- graphic engine monitor (GEM), its novel ture markings, only a series of unlabeled tick marks spaced 25 LED bar-graph display also provided only degrees Fahrenheit apart, with an asterisk at 80 percent of full-scale relative EGT. FIGURE 1 The original Alcor EGT gauge provided no absolute temperature information; the same was true of early engine analyzers and even the original Insight GEM 601/602. PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE BUSCH www.eaa.org 85 MIKE BUSCH Things started getting confusing when Electronics International (EI) introduced its Ultimate Scanner that provided digital (rather than graphical) readouts of EGT, and touted its 1-degree Fahrenheit accuracy as being far superior to the 25-degree granularity of the GEM’s bar graph. (Never mind that the absolute EGT values it was reporting so accurately were essentially meaningless.) Not to be outdone, J.P. Instruments (JPI) introduced its EDM-700 that fea- tured both a GEM-like bar graph and an Ultimate Scanner-like digital readout on the same instrument (See Figure 2). The EDM- FIGURE 2 700 was a smashing market success and forced both EI and Insight to respond with similar products (the UBG-16 and GEM 610, respectively). Now pilots were being presented with precise digital values of absolute EGT, scary temperatures in the 1,300s, 1,400s, 1,500s, and even 1,600s Fahrenheit. Few understood what these temperatures meant, but most assumed that—as with most other temperatures in aviation (cylinder head temperature, turbine intake temperature, outside air temperature, oil temperature, etc.)—cooler was better and hotter was worse. WHAT EGT IS NOT EI’s US-8 Ultimate Scanner displays absolute digital EGT information, as does In fact, however, absolute values of EGT are not particularly inter- JPI’s EDM-700, and subsequent generations of digital engine monitors have esting for a number of reasons. The most important is that indicated all done the same. EGT is not a “real” temperature. To understand what I mean by this, 86 Sport Aviation October 2010 PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE BUSCH I’d like you to conduct a thought experi- EGT probe) cannot possibly keep up with ment: Imagine that you’re an EGT probe, them. You wind up stabilizing at some tem- TURBINE INLET TEMPERATURE (TIT) located in an exhaust riser between 2 and 4 perature between the hottest and coolest gas Turbocharged engines are often equipped with inches from the exhaust port of a cylinder, temperature you see, and you dutifully a turbine inlet temperature (TIT) gauge or a TIT and think about what you would see. report this rather arbitrary temperature to probe connected to the aircraft’s digital engine As Figure 3 illustrates, you’d see nothing the panel-mounted instrument, where it is monitor. Unlike EGT, absolute values of TIT are much two-thirds of the time—during most displayed to the pilot as a digital value accu- meaningful, because the TIT probe is mounted of the intake, compression, and power rate to 1 degree. The temperature you report far downstream in the exhaust system where strokes—because the exhaust valve is closed to the pilot is not exhaust gas temperature the gas fl ow past the probe is steady (not and so no exhaust gas is fl owing out of the (which is gyrating crazily 20 times a sec- pulsed) and has relatively steady temperature exhaust port and past the probe. During the ond), but rather exhaust probe temperature (not constantly fl uctuating). Observance of an one-third of the time that the exhaust valve (which is stable but related to actual exhaust absolute TIT redline (typically 1,650 degrees is open, you’d see a constantly changing gas gas temperature in roughly the same fashion or 1,750 degrees) is appropriate and prudent temperature that starts out very hot when as mean sea level is to high tide). to obtain maximum useful life from the the valve fi rst opens but cools very rapidly as To make matters worse, numerous fac- turbocharger.—Mike Busch the hot compressed gas escapes and tors can aff ect indicated EGT besides actual expands, and then ultimately is scavenged exhaust gas temperature. These include by cold induction air during the valve over- probe mass and construction (grounded or lap period (at the end of the exhaust stroke ungrounded), cam lobe profi le, lifter leak- other four cylinders. The exact same and the beginning of the intake stroke) when down rate, valve spring condition, and phenomenon also occurs on the right both intake and exhaust valves are open exhaust manifold topology, among others. engine. This is not because those front simultaneously. For example, the two front cylinders (No. cylinders produce cooler exhaust gas than Now, all these gyrations are happening 5 and No. 6) on the left engine of my Cessna their neighbors (they don’t), but because the about 20 times per second, and you (the T310R always indicate lower EGTs than the exhaust risers for those cylinders curve aft www.eaa.org 87 MIKE BUSCH FAA-PMA Manufacturer of Quality Aircraft Parts 888.750.5244 www.mcfarlaneaviation.com/EAA FIGURE 3 Dual Controls for 912/914 Rotax Engines Clean installation without a clunky splitter box! An EGT probe “sees” a rapidly changing gas temperature during the one-third of the time that the exhaust valve is open, Choke Controls and nothing much during the two-thirds of the time that the exhaust valve is closed. Thus, EGT indicated by a digital • Turn-to-lock and non-locking styles cockpit gauge is not a “real” gas temperature. • Many knob options Throttle Controls Crankshaft Rotation • Panel mount with friction lock and quadrant styles 0˚ 180˚ 360˚ 540˚ 720˚ • Convenient mounting hardware and cable stops Push-to-Unlock and Turn-to-Lock Controls TDC Heavy duty for strength and long life • Many knob and length options Piston • Custom marking available Position New! 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