X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from exhub003-1.exch003intermedia.net ([207.5.74.28] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.11) with ESMTPS id 3434000 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:30:22 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=207.5.74.28; envelope-from=jwhaley@datacast.com Received: from EXVMBX003-5.exch003intermedia.net ([207.5.74.45]) by exhub003-1.exch003intermedia.net ([207.5.74.28]) with mapi; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:29:33 -0800 From: Jeff Whaley To: Rotary motors in aircraft Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:29:44 -0800 Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: Paul Lamar's Simple Fuel Injection Thread-Topic: [FlyRotary] Re: Paul Lamar's Simple Fuel Injection Thread-Index: Acl6cF3wqQmQ3ntiQCewizbt3iNhQQAAsdvA Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 From my perspective (25 years in electronics) the injector driver circuitry= would probably work, but as others have pointed out to what degree and wit= h what service life. Secondly, it doesn't provide anything of use to most o= f us with EC2s/EC3s ... you still need to drive either 2 or 4 injectors and= a fuel pump. The trickle-down gravity-fed fuel system, as a back-up was th= e most interesting aspect of the article to me ... that would really extend= the airtime after an alternator failure if the fuel pumps and injectors co= uld be turned off and some basic limp-home mode could be achieved. Otherwis= e we all need to know the battery life of our installations, add a second b= attery, etc. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Beh= alf Of George Lendich Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 2:56 PM To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Paul Lamar's Simple Fuel Injection Michael, Everyone's interested, but not enough information. PL is a master of the great ideas, but I don't know how many actually come to fruiton. George (down under) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael McMahon" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 8:07 PM Subject: [FlyRotary] Paul Lamar's Simple Fuel Injection >I haven't seen any response on this list to the article that Paul Lamar > posted a couple days ago (below). I'm very interested in objective > discussion of merits and flaws, and there hasn't been much on the Rotary > Engines list. Has anyone read it? Any opinions? > > Thanks, Michael > >>>>> Not entirely done as I will be updating it from time to time dependin= g > on your questions. >>>>> http://www.rotaryeng.net/simple-cheap-555.html >>>>> Paul Lamar > > > -- > Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > Archive and UnSub: > http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html -- Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ Archive and UnSub: http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.= html