X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from fed1rmmtao11.cox.net ([68.230.241.28] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.6) with ESMTP id 917490 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sun, 08 Jan 2006 11:18:10 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.230.241.28; envelope-from=ALVentures@cox.net Received: from BigAl ([68.7.14.39]) by fed1rmmtao11.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060108161615.MUPW6244.fed1rmmtao11.cox.net@BigAl> for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 11:16:15 -0500 From: "Al Gietzen" To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: First Engine Start Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 08:17:30 -0800 Message-ID: <000501c6146f$065d48e0$6400a8c0@BigAl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0006_01C6142B.F83A08E0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C6142B.F83A08E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm pretty sure I got it stopped by killing the fuel pump also, but I was madly turning off every switch I could get my hands on. Probably the quickest would have been to pop the circuit breaker on the EC2 but that would have required too much thinking time. Turning off the EC2 doesn't necessarily stop the engine. At least on the earlier versions there is a sneak circuit which powers the EC2 if the injector power is on. I guess pulling the throttle back wasn't the first thing to come to mind?:) Congrats on getting the engine running. That's an exciting milestone - on of the biggest next to first flight. Now it will take some patience to get everything tuned and calibrated. Best of luck going forward. Al ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C6142B.F83A08E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I'm pretty sure I got it stopped by killing the fuel pump also, but = I

was madly turning off every switch I could get my hands on.  = Probably

the quickest would have been to pop the circuit breaker on the EC2 = but

that would have required too much thinking time.

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Turning off = the EC2 doesn’t necessarily stop the engine.  At least on the earlier versions there is a sneak circuit which powers the EC2 if the injector = power is on.

I guess = pulling the throttle back wasn’t the first thing to come to = mind?:)

 

Congrats on = getting the engine running.  That’s an exciting milestone – on of = the biggest next to first flight.  Now it will take some patience to = get everything tuned and calibrated.  Best of luck going = forward.

 

Al

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