You’re getting there, Mike, one step
at a time. Now that your A/F ratio indication is working properly that should
help with the tuning considerably. Won’t be long now.
Ed
From: Rotary motors in aircraft
[mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Mike Fontenot
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 6:17
PM
To: Rotary
motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Initial
Tuning - Alternator working
Update:
I got the right connection for my alternator, experimented and rewired the
field and ground leads per some suggestions from the Aeroelectric List. WhaLa,
alternator started outputting about 15 volts. Too high, but a few turns of the
LR3C regulator screw has it now outputing 14.2 volts.
And as an added bonus, after letting the engine warm up, I started
slowing adjusting the Mixture Control up and down. Guess what, the Mixture
Indicator on the EM2 slowly tracked those changes in a smooth manner. Much more
so than last weekend when running on battery only.
Engine still idles higher than it should but now I'll go back to actual tuning
tasks. Progress is good.
--
Mike
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Mike Fontenot
Apex Consulting & Services LLC
Lakewood, Colorado
303 / 731-6645
mikef AT apexconsultingservices DOT com
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