Last night I came across a company that seems to

have developed a more

efficient ignitor and fuel injector.  Does

anyone have experience with this

company.  They also claim use of ethanol and

diesel in the rotary and other

engines. They seem to be doing some work with

the army on drones as well.

http://www.smartplugs.com/engines/rotary/singlerotary.htm

Doug in Japan

Those are glow plugs and I suspect they are

spiking the fuel with

nitromethane just like your model airplane engine

fuel :)

It is/was called Glo Fuel as in "glow plug fuel".

In my younger days

I was in the DC-RC club with doctor Walter Good

the father of the

UAV. Nitromethane is too expensive for large

scale use.

Glow plugs are standard equipment used for

starting almost all diesels.

Paul Lamar

Be careful. A guy on another rotary list said he

sent them $200 some

time ago and has not received anything.

Perry

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i talked to them a few months ago. do not remember the
person i talked to but he told me there was a problem
with rotary setup(do not remember the problem). also
they were not concentrating on development of the
rotary engine at this time. they were working on gov.
diesel generators for a contract. this plug is
designed to sustain glow without power to it if the
engine operates above 50-60% or better. anything below
that setting would require power to the plug. he would
not sell me one even though i wanted to play with it.
      paul brannon

Model airplane engines don't need the glow plugs hooked up
after they start running either. The nitromethane in the fuel
will ignite just from the residual combustion heat.
Without the nitromethane in the fuel they don't work.

I can see why they would not sell you any plugs. If they
did people would soon find out about the scam.

Paul Lamar
 
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