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Howdy! As I was drawing my dashboards, I stumbled across some display titles of with which I can do nothing. I simply do not understand them. Can you help me? I think most of them have a specific meaning, a technical term or something like that. Or are they just "technoblabble"? These displays are the following:

Free Turbine (Why free? Is there a "bound" turbine under Kitt's hood?)
E.G.T. (It must have its own heat, it has its Fahrenheit scale...)
HYD Syst Stress PSI
Propagation Delay HRS
MI/Gallons
VDC (From the Season 3-4 dash)

Help me, please

Nobody? Anybody? Don't you have just even some theories?

OK...
Free Turbine - A free-turbine engine has two major sections, the gas generator and the free turbine section. The function of the gas generator it to produce the required energy to drive the free turbine system, and it extracts about two-thirds of energy available from the combustion process. A turboprop engine is similar in design to a turboshaft engine except that it uses a reduction gear system to drive the propeller. The propeller may be driven from the gas generator, or it may use its own free turbine in the same way as the turboshaft engine. The free turbine arrangement allows the propeller driven turbine to seek its optimum speed while the compressor turbine operates at the best speed for the compressor efficiency.

The display monitors Turbine efficiency

E.G.T. - Exhaust Gas temperature, common jet aircraft gauge.


HYD Syst Stress PSI - Hydraulic System Stress given in Pounds per square inch (PSI) - that is a measurement of fluid pressure in the whole of the system.

Propagation Delay HRS - Signal propagation delay of a geostationary satellite to it's receiver .

MI/Gallons - Miles per Gallon

VDC - Voltage in terms of Direct Current.

Ta Da!

What do I Win..?

Actually I am cobbling up a document for the ]Foundation that covers a lot of these functions and thoiught I would share... cheers[/img]

good work BoMcD

Man, you are a genius. Thank you a lot!