Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #3802
From: Barry Gardner <barrygardner@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: EWP - series pumps and wacky ideas
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:22:24 -0500
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Rino wrote:

> My installation has the two pumps in parallel. Either pump gives me a
> pressure of 40 psi.  When I switch both pumps I get a pressure of 55
> psi.  That pressure difference would affect fuel flow at the injectors.
> I do not know if it is a good thing of not. because of the pressure
> difference I plan on using one pump only at a time.

Corky Bell wrote in "Maximum Boost" that "Fuel flow changes through a nozzle
are proportional to the square root of the pressure change across the
nozzle." p 92

Barry Gardner
Wheaton, IL

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