X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.125] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.14) with ESMTP id 3731373 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:57:56 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=71.74.56.125; envelope-from=clouduster@austin.rr.com Received: from [10.0.0.99] (really [66.25.157.35]) by hrndva-omta02.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090624195717949.RFLP17858@hrndva-omta02.mail.rr.com> for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:57:17 +0000 Message-ID: <4A428516.8080407@austin.rr.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:57:10 -0500 From: Dennis Haverlah User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] 88HP vice 130 HP. [FlyRotary] Re: 295cc vs 495 cc Renesis Test[FlyRotary] References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------040305090000040601070504" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040305090000040601070504 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I agree that my Renesis engine was only producing about 70-80 HP on the small red primaries. When I run only on the primaries with the secondaries off and the cold start line grounded my EM-2 tach RPM doubles - 4000 RPM shows up as 8000! My fuel flow numbers and HP numbers appear also to be doubled!! The 140 HP probably was actually 70 HP! However - when I operate with the primaries off and the secondaries on the RPM and other data is not doubled!! Somewhere above 7500 RPM the RPM number on the EM-2 goes to Zero (0). Is this due to the rev. limiter Tracy may have included? If so - does it control engine speed by disabling the secondaries? After the fatality several years ago because an apparent injector may have been disabled by foreign matter, I was determined to have duel injectors and ignition for each rotor. This morning I replaced the Renesis red 295 cc primary injectors with blue Renesis 495 cc injectors. When running with the secondaries on (540 cc I believe) and the primaries off I get full static power. Because I've changed intake and injectors I will need some time to calibrate fuel flow before I can accurately report static fuel flow numbers. Dennis H. > > --------------040305090000040601070504 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I agree that my Renesis engine was only producing about 70-80 HP on the small red primaries.  When I run only on the primaries with the secondaries off and the
cold start line grounded my EM-2  tach RPM doubles - 4000 RPM shows up as 8000!    My fuel flow numbers and HP numbers appear also to be doubled!!   The 140 HP probably was actually 70 HP!   However - when I operate with the primaries off and the secondaries on the RPM and other data is not doubled!!  Somewhere above 7500 RPM the RPM number on the EM-2 goes to Zero (0).    Is  this due to the rev. limiter Tracy may have included?  If so - does it control engine speed by disabling  the secondaries?

After the fatality several years ago because an apparent injector may have been disabled by foreign matter, I was determined to have duel injectors and ignition for each rotor.  This morning I replaced the Renesis red 295 cc primary injectors with blue Renesis 495 cc injectors.

When running with the secondaries on  (540  cc I believe) and the primaries off I get full static power.   Because I've changed intake and injectors I will need some time to calibrate fuel flow before I can accurately report static fuel flow numbers. 

Dennis H.
  
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