Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #2592
From: Tracy Crook <lors01@msn.com>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: today's engine results- still no joy
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:46:12 -0400
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Rusty,
You've been getting some good advice on this so far.  I agree that you either have very mismatched flow rates on the primary & secondaries, OR the cold start function is being actuated at unexpected times (pin 30 being grounded) as Ed speculated.   This would explain why disabling the secondaries made a difference when running at low (12" ) MAP.  You MUST determine which of these is true before doing anything else.  With your background I'm sure you know the importance of eliminating each problem befor proceeding to the next.
 
 The EC2 can compensate for mismatched flow rates *within limits*.  If you have a choice, use the lower flow rate injectors as the primaries.  If there is too much spread in the flow rates, only matching them more closely will fix the problem.
 
Most importantly,   Running all 4 injectors all the time is not an answer and will result in serious hair loss in the future if attempted.
 
Al,  on the low MAP programming, it will help to initially set the MODE 2 program width to maximum before making that first low map adjustment in MODE 1.  This will adjust a couple of steps below the actual running MAP.  Forgot to mention this the other day when we were talking about it.   Remember to set mode 2 back to minimum before making fine adjustments after this.
 
Tracy
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 9:52 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: today's engine results- still no joy

I had a problem with the engine dying after pulling the throttle back when it went to a MAP pressure below where I was able to run and make the big correction.  This is influenced by the large primaries, but I believe will be solved by going to a MAP referenced regulator. 
 
This was all great info Al.  Thanks a lot for the reply.  The point about creating artificially low, un-tunable MAPs by closing the throttle is something I never thought about.  Yep, that carb is looking better all the time :-)
 
Rusty (who hates carbs, and is just kidding about using one)
 

 

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