X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from host.roblinphoto.com ([72.52.218.78] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.14) with ESMTPS id 3681630 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:40:18 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=72.52.218.78; envelope-from=bob@bob-white.com Received: from c-68-35-128-192.hsd1.nm.comcast.net ([68.35.128.192]:60377 helo=quail) by host.roblinphoto.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MFY8i-0005Dx-IK for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:39:41 -0600 Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:39:33 -0600 From: Bob White To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Water temps Message-Id: <20090613123933.a2b69dc7.bob@bob-white.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.14.4; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.roblinphoto.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lancaironline.net X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - bob-white.com Hi Tracy, What limit do you set for that temp, or what temp do you see when water temp is at the limit? Bob W. On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:23:52 -0400 Tracy Crook wrote: > This is just an educated guess but to see if the critical engine temperature > has been exceeded you might want to measure the temp of the rear rotor > housing close to a sparkplug. I use a thermocouple at the knock sensor boss > to do this. > > Coolant temp at the pump housing is pretty useless for this since it depends > on coolant to be circulating to measure. Otherwise it is just measuring > steam. > > Tracy Crook > > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:57 PM, George Lendich wrote: > -- N93BD - Rotary Powered BD-4 - http://www.bob-white.com 3.8 Hours Total Time and holding Cables for your rotary installation - http://roblinstores.com/