Subject: Rotary timeing alternator mounting
From: ACRE NL
Date: 6/28/2002, 7:22 PM


Good question. I would have to think about that hard as OEM ECM's
for piston engines assume a trigger from the 1/2 speed camshaft.
A four cyl fires the the same number of times per rev as a 2 rotor
but the cam shaft trigger is only running at half speed. Seems if
you triggered once per rev of the rotary you might get four
sparks instead of only two out of a four cylinder OEM unit.
Perhaps not. Depends on what you mean by OEM. Is it just
the electronics? I suspect one trigger one spark from the
OEM electronics. So you will need two triggers on the two rotor
flywheel.

Too much for my brain :-)

Paul Lamar

Paul,
The 3rd gen FD 13Brew uses two magnetic triggers on the front pulley as
oem set up.
[Marc Wiese]

Yes I know and I am thinking of going with it. I can do away with
the "crank" angle sensor and have more flexibility of mounting the alternator
on the cool side of the engine. No V belt rubbing problems on the crank
angle sensor. Save a bit of weight too.

Paul Lamar


Paul are the triggers hall effect, or something else
Also what software do you use to add the comments, lines etc to the
JPEGs you send
Royce

I think the 93's and up are magnetic. Tracy might know.

Linux comes with all sorts of free graphics manipulations programs
Gimp is like photo shop but I use xv extensively and Paint to do
the text on photos. At last count Red Hat 7.2 came with over 1000
free programs. I also use a couple of free programs that don't come with Linux
for filing photos.... ytree and xtree for Linux.

Paul Lamar
 
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