X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.237] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 1110144 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 12 May 2006 00:40:47 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.233.184.237; envelope-from=hansconser@gmail.com Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 69so491553wri for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 21:40:02 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=I1bL2+OPf2+uqPWJVqzcr/H+EUXONph65LPX1Uq0JFhBBNWQ+Wx91aRqA7HTy1kLzOZZb8Yy/fD1kkANcPpuYTfgf1cHU/SBo047AD7jcHAZdordtNj8shWA+C7pcovrDylUJLj3aXkeIPfUVb+zMZ/kWX5WayaZ+b6x8APLmP0= Received: by 10.54.148.10 with SMTP id v10mr1956941wrd; Thu, 11 May 2006 21:40:02 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from ?69.144.193.207? ( [69.144.193.207]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 40sm222956wrl.2006.05.11.21.40.01; Thu, 11 May 2006 21:40:01 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <7e1e3dd810c430d549a0d75e132eabb6@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Hans Conser Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Pusher cooling Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 22:39:57 -0600 To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Al, I was envisioning a cheap 110V 3HP squirrel cage fan sitting on the ground under your wing with some flexible ducting going from its outlet to the oil cooler inlet, with a sheetmetal "manifold" to give you some area to duct tape it to the underside of your wing. Should work good for static testing. Hans On May 11, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Al Gietzen wrote: > Since the water is doing well, have you considered an oil to water heat > exchanger. That will probably drive the water temps to 'problematic', > but then you have the option of implementing John's augmenter. > > Yes; my earliest designs included oil to water heat exchanger because > there > are some advantages to have them coupled. But the KISS principal wins > out. > I could find no oil/water exchangers that were designed for the high > oil > flow rates of the mazda engine, so it could only work in a parallel > arrangement. I did not design the coolant system to handle additional > load > from the oil. > > Al > > > -- > Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > Archive and UnSub: http://mail.lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/ >