Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #61373
From: Ernest Christley <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] electric fuel selector valves
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:55:11 -0700
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
This is the type that I'm referring to:



On Monday, October 27, 2014 5:50 PM, Ernest Christley <flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote:


Is anyone familiar with electric fuel selector valves as used in automotive applications.  I'm trying to figure out how they operate.  Do they select one line when power is applied to a solenoid type plunger, and then the other line is selected when power isn't applied?  Or does a pulse of power switch them back and forth?  If they maintain the currently selected tank when power is absent, it seems to me that this could remove fuel lines and a leak prone selector valve from a lot of cockpits.  Furthermore, the 6 port models look like they could be plumbed easily to handle return lines.



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