X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.9) with ESMTPS id 3270897 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:35:29 -0500 Received-SPF: softfail receiver=logan.com; client-ip=216.240.18.37; envelope-from=echristley@nc.rr.com X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,543,1220252400"; d="scan'208";a="84034805" Received: from smtp1.corp.netapp.com ([10.57.156.124]) by mx2-out.netapp.com with ESMTP; 04 Nov 2008 05:34:50 -0800 Received: from [10.62.16.82] (ernestc-thinkcenter-kubuntu64.hq.netapp.com [10.62.16.82]) by smtp1.corp.netapp.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/NTAP-1.6) with ESMTP id mA4DYn7F007487 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 05:34:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49104FC8.7080709@nc.rr.com> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:36:08 -0500 From: Ernest Christley Reply-To: echristley@nc.rr.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080925) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Alcoholic Rotary References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tracy Crook wrote: > The EC2 or 3 does not care what is being squirted through the > injector. There is only one minor rub. Assuming the same injector > size, the EC2 would need Mode 3 adjusted for the mixture of Ethanol / > Gasoline in use. Without adjusting Mode 3, it would be still be > within the range of the manual mixture control as long as you didn't > mind having the mixture knob at a different position depending on the > fuel in use. > > You might want to use a slightly larger injector size if you wanted to > run 100% Ethanol. > > Tracy I vaguely seem to remember the MegaSquirt people working on a capacitive sensor to adjust for ethanol. I don't know who is working on it, or what state of operation it is in.