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From: "Joe Hull" <joeh@pilgrimtech.com>
To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Turbonetics T04 rotary flies
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:21:35 -0800
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That sounds good John! I really hope this does it for you (and for turbos in
rotaries!).

Thanx,
Joe Hull
Cozy Mk-IV #991 (Done Building! In Phase1 Flight Test - 0 hrs flown) 
Redmond (Seattle), Washington
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
> Behalf Of John Slade
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 9:16 AM
> To: Rotary motors in aircraft
> Subject: [FlyRotary] Turbonetics T04 rotary flies
> 
> After a lot of delay from out-of-town work, patio rebuilding and "cut &
> paste" stainless steel work on the heat shield, I can finally report
> that the new turbo T04 installation flies. The one issue I had on the
> 0.9 local flight was an erroneous EGT reading. I installed a new sensor
> and it's reading very low - 300F.
> 
> Boost still has a tendency to run away above 44 MAP. I've been gradually
> tweaking the boost controller toward minus on each ground run, but the
> wastegate doesn't seem to be doing anything. So far I have about 1.5
> hours ground running on the turbo. I held her at 40 MAP for take off
> which was more than enough to get me 80kts less than half way down the
> 3000' funway.
> 
> Take off acceleration seems to be a little less than with the stock
> turbo. There's no sign of oil or soot on the prop and the oil (recently
> changed) is staying "oil color". With all the stock turbos the oil went
> black within an hour of running.
> 
> Perhaps now, finally, the fun begins.....
> Regards,
> John Slade
> 
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