Tracy's new fly by wire throttle.
I guess it could be done so he did it :)
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Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
Paul
This is the throttle from the RV-8?. With a P-port manifold to
could it be used between the compressor and the intercooler?
Hmm .....combined with his electronic mixture control and an
electric C/S prop, the control panel real estate area for these
three item becomes very small. Game like. Failure mode with
the E-throttle would be st be W.O.T. I
presume.
I have a central control stick in my design now with arm
rests built into the sides of the plane. Just a thought
and perhaps only an experiment. I would like to mount an
auxiliary electronic side joy stick coupled to the
auto pilot servos so the plane in that mode would be
Fly-By-Wire in a sense.
Touching the manual control stick would disengage the
auto pilot and/or side joy stick reverting back to
manual inputs to the cables.
Doug in Japan.
Yep the RX8 throttle is fly by wire. I have never been
able to get it to open more than 80%. I guess the air is too
hot around here.
; >
As I said recently what you really NEED in an airplane
is two magnetos and a carb :) In other words KISS.
BTW where in the world are you? I thought you were on your
way to
Placerville. Call me from Lancaster if you need help.
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
Paul,
Yea I got the part about magnetos and carb loud and clear:)
Magnetos still have some advantages for me, carbs not.
I'm still in Japan. I had to delay my departure date a week
for various reasons. I'll be seeing Tom Webber on the 18th
and working on the plane on the 19th and 20th. Flying soon
afterwards I hope.
Doug
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Hi Paul: The advantage of FI over the carb has to do with carb ice
and
even distribution of mixture. In terms of BSFC the carb can be as
good
as FI. When FI was first introduced on outboard motors the FI
units had
worse BSFC than the carb engines. This was mainly due to lack of
the O2
sensing which was not included because of water in the exhaust.
The
best BSFC in the carb engines was achieved with one carb per
cylinder.
Bob Y
Compared to a total electrical system failure providing carb heat
is a piece of cake :) EFI and electronic ignition suck down
a lot of amps. If you are flying 500 to 900 mile over water legs
and you lose the electrical system you are not going to
make it on the back up battery alone. There ar e places in
Alaska where it is 500 miles between suitable landing
sites.
Totally dual electrical systems are expensive and heavy.
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
The p port carb engines I have seen all have the carb mounted too
high for most aircraft. Are there design options that mount the carb
lower? Jerry
Sure you could come out and down past the exhaust
system with some rather long intake tubes.
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Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
No matter what system you run (carb or FI) it does not matter where
the butterfly resides when at WOT if the throttle is in the intake
tube. You could mount a side draft carb next to the block and use
any length tubing needed to tune for max power. As soon as you
stick a butterfly or slide in the airflow you will no longer get
organ pipe tuning. If you want to tune for cruise you must have the
throttle as part of the intake plenum rather than a part of the
intake tube.
Ken Powell
Bryant, Arkansas
501-847-4721
C150 / RV-4 under construction
Paul
If two alternators is not enough insurance, then how about
fuel injection via a more 'traditional' way. Do you know
of this company?
http://www.airflowperformance.com/v2/systems.html
From what I've read though EFI allows more accurate control
over the amount of fuel delivered to each combustion cycle.
Reliability is another issue.
For that I would refer to Francious, Tracy, and perhaps Mazda.
Doug Fir
Yes I think mechanical fuel injection is a pretty good idea.
It requires a boost pump to get it started.
Once it is started a mechanical pump takes over.
Everette Hatch used mechanical fuel injection on his rotary
engines. No doubt EFI is more accurate and probably easier
to start when hot.
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
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