Mark,
If the weather weren’t so crappy today, I would have the 40 hours under my
belt. Sitting at 39.4 right now.
It has been an interesting process. As I reported earlier, My Blue Mountain
failed last year, (after about 10 hours of flight test) at the same time that
they went ‘belly up’. Greg DID fix the unit, but I lost over 6 months waiting
for the resolution, so I rewired the panel for a Grand Rapids system. Got
it back in the air in April this year. Had some Motor Home travel mixed
in, so am just wrapping up the test program.
I have a 76x76 Catto prop, and can get 6100 RPM static. Has a very
good climb rate compared to the certified planes that I used to fly. Still have
some tuning issues to tweak, but it runs strong and steady over most of the
range. Yesterday I did a circle of the test area in cruise mode. Equivalent of
> 100 mile cross country.
I think I am still marginal on cooling for hot weather, but the weather is
cool now so I am delaying doing anything more about that until summer.
Bill
Schertz
KIS Cruiser #4045
N343BS
Phase I testing (almost done)
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 7:51 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Todd Bartrim on
"ebay"...not
Bill,
Good point. I measure mine on the inlet side of the WP, so it would
naturally read lower.
How's your flying going? Have you flown off your 40 hours? Any
problems that you would want to share with the group?
Mark
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Bill Schertz
<wschertz@comcast.net>
wrote:
Mark,
It depends where the pressure sensor is. Mine is on the outlet side of
the water pump, so it measures the static pressure as well as the dynamic head
pressure that is forcing the water through the radiator. I have a 10# cap on
the reservoir at the low side, and it holds the pressure of the system.
Bill
Schertz
KIS Cruiser #4045
N343BS
Phase I testing
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 11:51 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Todd Bartrim on
"ebay"...not
Doug,
I paused the video on the EM-2 frames and noticed a couple of
things. RPM showing NOP, Fuel Pressure = 50, Water Pressure = 30.
I normally see about 13 psi WP. I just though it was interesting that
the RPM was INOP. Maybe he has a separate tach. Personally, I
would be concerned to see 30 psi WP.
Mark