EGT warning light ......... Interested?

[BlownRat]

Gentlemen of the TDRoundtable,

Who among us would be interested in an adjustable EGT warning light? The EGT gauge I have in my truck is the most important and the most monitored and as such I have the instrument in an A pillar mount. When running loaded (towing) EGT is fairly easy to keep track of, but when un loaded and on the smoke, things happen very fast and I find it harder to monitor the EGT. I have not worked out the details, but if there is enough response I will send off a letter to Autometer regarding the feasibility of such a retrofit to existing gauges and to the possibility of a stand-alone system. (Another hole to drill and tap in to the manifold?) Or using the existing T. C? I am sure this can be done as Autometer has a system they call Tri-Alert which can be hooked up to any of the 90 deg sweep electric gauges they offer and will trigger warning lights at any point chosen. The EGT gauge I have is a 270 deg sweep ultra-lite so I assume the Tri-alert will not work with my existing gauge. I would appreciate any comments, ideas or thoughts on this and if you are interested please speak up. Pardon the long post.

Thanks
Andrew

 

[illflem]

Andrew, if I'm not mistaken Westech already has a pyro with adjustable warning sensors available. Think they are sort of pricey though.

 

[Big_Bad_Dually]

BlownRat,

Jegs has an Autometer box that you can use with the short sweep Autometer guages. The box can be used with three of these electric guages and is adjustable to turn on an indicator light whenever you guage hits a certain point.

The part number on www.jegs.com is 105-5347 and it costs 63. 99

I don't have a pyrometer yet but have been thinking about getting this box and seeing if I could install it to have three different lights come on as the egt's increase.

Brian