Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #58957
From: Ernest Chrisltey <echristley@att.net>
Subject: Single lever control
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:18:55 -0400
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
This is what I was referring to in my previous email.  Throttle is graphed against RPM in both.  On the left, data points are colored based on coolant temps at the time the data point was captured.  The right graph uses AFR to set the color.

The one on the left has the points colored according to coolant temp at the time the data point was collected. This graph tells me that a cold engine will make more power.

The right graph has the points colored according to AFR, and is more interesting. My throttle plate is fully open at about 50% travel of the control lever.  My goal is to keep the mixture near cutoff lean until after the throttle plate is wide open. Until WOTP (wide open throttle plate) power increases from increasing the amount of intake charge. After that, pushing the lever forward increases power by enrichening the mixture.  I transition from changing the amount of mixture, to changing the makeup of it.   I would like a solid diagonal line, correlating throttle and RPM.  The graph shows me that I reach best power mixture to quickly.  I need to shift my target AFR a bit so that the lines flatten out with only 5% to 10% of lever travel left;  however, for the most part I've achieved the goal of having RPM directly correlated with throttle position.
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