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Celsius temp gauge
- Thread starter koke01
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Pretty much all the trucks around here have celsius gauges 
Maybe it has, but I'll bet someone swapped in a Canadian gauge cluster, or at least a Canadian temp guage into the cluster. Be glad your oil pressure guage isn't in kilopascals...
Rene
Rene
I'm Canadian and I have no idea what a kilopascal is, lol
it's the SI measure of pressure. 
one pascal is one newton per square meter. a kilopascal then is 1000 newtons per square meter.
multiply pascal by 1.25 x10^-4 and you've got PSI
one pascal is one newton per square meter. a kilopascal then is 1000 newtons per square meter.multiply pascal by 1.25 x10^-4 and you've got PSI
Well, in this case, I think that a pound per square inch is was easier to comprehend than a newton per square meter. I mean honestly, what the heck is a newton equivalent to?
SI is way better when it comes to measuring distances, speeds, temperatures etc, but is totally useless with regards to pressures :P
SI is way better when it comes to measuring distances, speeds, temperatures etc, but is totally useless with regards to pressures :P
i'd much rather work with pascal in pressure - it's what we use in classes all the time. 
[SIZE=+1]1 newton = 0.224808943 pounds force[/SIZE]
pounds force is what we usually consider pounds to be (force=mass x acceleration). the actual meaurement for mass in american units is the slug, but no one uses it for anything.
the guage would be in kilopascals because the oil passages are so small and the pressure relative to the small passage is high, but would be very low for a square meter.
[SIZE=+1]1 newton = 0.224808943 pounds force[/SIZE]
pounds force is what we usually consider pounds to be (force=mass x acceleration). the actual meaurement for mass in american units is the slug, but no one uses it for anything.
the guage would be in kilopascals because the oil passages are so small and the pressure relative to the small passage is high, but would be very low for a square meter.
All I know is that about 400 kpa is similar to about 25 - 30 PSI, which is where my truck should be sitting most of the time. I guess I'm kind of in a generation where we are still part way Metric, and part way Imperial...
