Cylinder Head temperatures
I recently took delivery of an AutoGyro Cavalon equipped with an Rotax 915 iS 3A engine. My previous aircraft engine experience has been with Continental and Lycoming engines where cylinder head temps are the norm for monitoring the engine. And, hence, I had ordered from AutoGyro the capability to sense/display cylinder head temperatures. I'm equipped with temperature sensors on all four cylinders but only, at the present, able to display cylinders 1, 2, & 3 cyl. head temps. The 4th sensor, on cyl. 4, is connected and displayed as water temperature. (All sensor readings are being displayed on a Garmin G3x Touch).
Are the reading on cylinders 1-3 really the cylinder head temperature? Is it possible that all the cylinder head temperatures are really a reading of the water temperature? Does it make sense to be looking at cylinder head temperatures on a water cooled engine? Could I expect to see a difference in temperatures from cylinder to cylinder?
Thanks in advance,
Hal