Measuring fuel usage by Weight.

Submitted: Thursday, Aug 25, 2011 at 08:24
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Our recent Madigan line trip required us to carry a maximum fuel load
including 4 jerries and 6 smaller 5lt oil containers all filled to the max to come up with some 300lt.

We also wished to strictly monitor our fuel use so that we could back track or take alternate paths if it was low.

This raised the question of how do you know how much you have etc ?

Previously we have always carried spring scales and these work but are a little clunky.

Like so many of these things the theory may be fine but unless you can achieve a result in a practical and effective manner then it is more trouble than its worth.

We found a new device that really did the job well - its a handheld digital luggage scale from Jaycar designed for airline usage.

Amazing little device thats light weight, effective , easy to use and accurate and was only $19.95.

This device measures up to 40kg.


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The Nissan Patrol GU allows you to transfer fuel from a sub to a main tank and by doing this and topping up the main tank from containers we were able to measure our fuel use over most of the 8 days of the trip.

We simply weighed the fuel containers before and after filling and in the case of our petrol car 1 litre equals 0.725 kg. (diesel is about 0.8)

Indeed we had to make a difficult decision to investigate alternate paths late in our trip and it was very comforting to accurately know your fuel and range details.


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