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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:06:01 -0400
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Subject: Re: Seepage, no more. Oil system
From: Lynn Hanover <lehanover@gmail.com>
To: flyrotary@lancaironline.net
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Like resistors wired in parallel, coolers plumbed in parallel reduce the
flow resistance to a figure lower than either cooler.
Just as adding more tubes to a water radiator reduces the resistance to
water flow.

Like making a fixed length of tubing bigger in diameter as you add coolers.
It flows better the bigger it gets.

As in resistors wired in series, coolers plumbed in series, just add total
resistance to flow of each cooler.

Like making a fixed diameter tube longer and longer as you add coolers.
Eventually resistance to flow will result in no flow at all.

In addition: The hotter of two parallel coolers will flow more fluid, as the
fluid becomes thinner. So, in order to balance the flow between one leg of a
parallel system that has one short fat leg, with another leg that is long
and thin will be one interesting process.
Perhaps restrictors or manually tuned valves will be involved

Plus, the rotary is cold blooded. The big bearings stress the oil film to no
great extent, and the major source of oil temperature is rotor cooling. At
low speeds and idle, the check balls in the crank don't even open to allow
cooling oil to spray into the engine. Those balls operate as a function of
RPM not temperature.

On the other hand, you will get a water temperature increase within one
minute of startup. A water based coolant has very low viscosity and flow to
a distant heat exchanger will be immediate. Like the rear heater in my
school bus.

There is so little difference in weights that there is little disadvantage
of one over the other
(Oil vice Water).

Oil changes with the "long" system will never get a complete drain cycle.

Lynn E. Hanover

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<div>Perhaps restrictors or manually tuned valves will be involved</div>
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<div>Plus, the rotary is cold blooded. The big bearings stress the oil film=
 to no great extent, and the major source of oil temperature is rotor cooli=
ng. At low speeds and idle, the check balls in the crank don&#39;t even ope=
n to allow cooling oil to spray into the engine. Those balls operate as a f=
unction of RPM not temperature.=A0</div>

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w to a distant heat exchanger will be immediate. Like the rear heater in my=
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<div>Lynn E. Hanover</div>
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