GAUGE: Oil Temp and Pressure
Gauge v2.6.001 - Current Version 13th Feb 2024

Features:

1) Temp Gauge

2) Oil Pressure Gauge PSI or BAR

3) Engine Number Selector (NEW)

4) Multi Needle for Multi Engines (NEW)

5) Ambient Outside Temperature

6) Engine Gas Temp Indicator

7) Warning Light - High Temp

8) Warning Light - Low & High Pressure

9) Lighting changes with panel lights

10) Farenheight and Celsius toggle

11) Built in side buttons

12) Optional Glass Reflections

13) Brightness Control (Physical FIP)

Aircraft Compatibility:
Simulator: Fully Compatible
3rd Party: Mostly Compatible*
*Please report any 3rd Party incompatibility via our discord channel

Buttons & Dials Summary:

[S5] PSI / BAR Toggle:

[S6] Engine Selection / Hold to Toggle Multi Needle:

[L Dial] Menu Value Down/Up:

[R Dial] Menu Activate & Previous/Next:

The Sidebar:

If the blanking plate is used instead of the sidebar, then colour of the plate can now be changed by editing variable [FG_GLOBAL_BLANKING_COLOUR] in SPAD.neXt data monitor.

Variables:

FG_OILTEMP_INSTRUCTIONS (Session)

Instructions Page (Off = 0, On = 1)

FG_OILTEMP_MENU (Session)

Menu Item Index (0 to 9)

0 = Menu Closed

1 = Version & Info

2 = Side Buttons

3 = Engine Number

4 = Degrees F or C

5 = PSI or BAR

6 = Glass Reflection

7 = Background Colour

8 = Brightness Control

9 = Panel Lights Control

FG_OILTEMP_BUTTONS (Profile)

Side Buttons (Off = 0, On = 1)

FG_OILTEMP_LABELS (Profile)

Side Button Labels (Off = 0, On = 1)

FG_OILTEMP_PRESSURE_UNITS (Profile)

Pressure Output Toggle (0 - 1)

0 = PSI

1 = BAR

FG_OILTEMP_ENGINE_NUMBER (Device)

Engine number selected= (0 - 3)

0 = Eng1

1 = Eng2

2 = Eng3

3 = Eng4

SIMCONNECT Vars Used:

ENG EXHAUST GAS TEMPERATURE:1, farenheit

ENG EXHAUST GAS TEMPERATURE:2, farenheit

ENG EXHAUST GAS TEMPERATURE:3, farenheit

ENG EXHAUST GAS TEMPERATURE:4, farenheit

AMBIENT TEMPERATURE, farenheit

general eng oil temperature:1, farenheit

general eng oil pressure:1, PSI

general eng oil pressure:1, BAR

general eng oil temperature:2, farenheit

general eng oil pressure:2, PSI

general eng oil pressure:2, BAR

general eng oil temperature:3, farenheit

general eng oil pressure:3, PSI

general eng oil pressure:3, BAR

general eng oil temperature:4, farenheit

general eng oil pressure:4, PSI

general eng oil pressure:4, BAR

NUMBER OF ENGINES,Number

fipgauges.com GLOBAL VARIABLES:

(not all vars used in every gauge)

FG_GLOBAL_DIAL_SPEED (Session)

Variable used for dial acceleration (Off = 0, On = 1)

FG_GLOBAL_GAUGE_BRIGHTNESS (Profile)

Brightness value of physical FIP's. Affects all physical gauges (20-250)

FG_GLOBAL_GAUGE_BRIGHTNESS_MODE (Profile)

Variable used when editing Global or individual Brightness (0-1)

0 - Global Brightness

1 - Inedividual Brightness

FG_GLOBAL_BLANKING_COLOUR (Profile)

Text Variable used to set blanking plate colour

FG_GLOBAL_GLASS (Profile)

Glass Reflection (Off = 0, On = 1)

FG_GLOBAL_HIDE_MENU_LED (Profile)

Toggle visibility of Mini Menu LED (0 = On, 1 = Off)

FG_GLOBAL_JET_COLOUR (Profile)

Background Colour (0 to 3)

1 = Grey panel with grey gauge face

2 = Blue grey panel with grey gauge face

3 = Dark grey panel with black gauge face

4 = Dark blue panel with black gauge face.

FG_GLOBAL_JET_BACKGROUND_COLOUR (Profile)

Background Colour (Black = 0, Blue = 1 )

FG_GLOBAL_MIN_VOLTAGE (Profile)

Minimum voltage before gauge electronics turns off (-1 to 150)

-1 = Disabled

0 - 150 = Off Voltage Level

FG_GLOBAL_MIN_VOLTAGE_CACHE (Profile)

Internal Variable - Used to store off voltage value - do not edit

FG_GLOBAL_PANEL_LIGHTS (Profile)

Night Lit Mode (Off = 0, On = 1)

FG_GLOBAL_PRESSURE (Profile)

Shared variable for switching inHg and MB (0 to 1)

0 = inHg

1 = Millbars

FG_GLOBAL_STYLE (Profile)

Background Colour (0 to 6)

0 = Grey

1 = Black Dial Face

2 = Darker Gauge & Dial Face

3 = Black & No Gauge GFX

4 = Grey - Original Design

5 = Black Dial Face - Original Design

6 = Darker Gauge & Dial Face - Original Design

FG_GLOBAL_VOLTAGE (Session)

Internal variable used to read current voltage

Release Notes:

2.6.001 - Using New Sidebar Button and Labels Code (4 display options now also) - blank sidebar custom colour

2.6.000

- 1) SPAD.neXt 0.9.15 Compatibility (Convert "PRESS" to "PRESSSHORT") Fixes short and long press both firing on long press.

- 2) Menu system upgraded

- 3) New gauge brightness code using SPAD brightness variables.

- 4) Can control global or individual gauge brightness in gauge (Profile saved settings)

- 5) Better use of button lights

2.5.004 - Pressure in BAR showing wrong output fixed.

2.5.003 - Added Blanking Plate to Left Sidebar options

2.5.002 - New Custom Virtual Power supports ALL aircraft volt variables - See https://fipgauges.com/customfeatures.php

2.5.001 - Virtual Power Warning added to Menu

2.5.000 - Added New Gauge Design and Panel Lighting control in Mini Menu

2.4.004 - Support for NEW 4 colour hue panel lights.

2.4.003 - Tweaked voltage monitoring to better support MSFS2020. Added Monitoring for Battery Bus

2.4.002 - SPAD.neXt 0.9.7.x Variable Scope Compatibility

2.4.001 - Added A2A compatibility for Oil Temp & Pressure

2.4.000 - Added BAR output. Toggle with [S5] or in Mini Menu

2.3.001 - Added Brightness Control to Menu.

2.3.000 - Panel Lights now controlled by local variable (FG_GLOBAL_PANEL_LIGHTS) 0=Off 1=On

2.2.000 - Multi Engine support, Press [S6] To select engine number & Hold [S6] Toggle Multi Needle Mode

2.1.000 - Resized Text to become compliant with SPAD.neXt scaling changes

2.0.000 - New colour schemes available in mini menu.

1.4.001 - SPAD.neXt offset compliancy changes (legacy code no longer supported)

1.4.000 - Improved graphics with shadows and transparency, Optional glass reflections.

1.3.000 - SPAD.neXt 0.9 Mini Menu Degrees F - C Toggle, Built in Side Buttons

1.2.000 - Improved accuracy of temp reading

1.1.000 - Public Release

1.0.000 - Closed Beta

Please report any bugs or feature requests via our discord channel

Document Published 13/02/2024