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Old 08-09-2003, 02:01 PM   #88 (permalink)
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Originally posted by Innovator

Also, you are leaving the center honeycomb in (the one by the resistor that measures the air flow) so the air going past the sensor really is not more turbulent, it's just less....
The resistor is actually a thermistor to measure the temperature. There is also a barometric pressure sensor. The Karmen vortex phenomenon is used to measure volume air flow. Mass air flow is calculated from the three measured variables.

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