X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.5) with ESMTP id 3054455 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:55:24 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=75.180.132.120; envelope-from=echristley@nc.rr.com Received: from [192.168.0.19] (really [66.57.38.121]) by cdptpa-omta06.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20080803225446.MTYA9085.cdptpa-omta06.mail.rr.com@[192.168.0.19]> for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 22:54:46 +0000 Message-ID: <489637D2.5020005@nc.rr.com> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:57:22 -0400 From: Ernest Christley User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Generator development References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bob White wrote: > Isn't Tracy saying the clutch plate works, but it really isn't doing > much and it only helps in extreme situations, not in normal operation? > > Bob W. > That's how I read it, with the most important point being "it works". It's a convenient and fairly lightweight method of getting the torque off of the eccentric shaft and into the PSRU's stub shaft. I'm not going to ask any more of it than that. 8*) -- http://www.ronpaultimeline.com