Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #65781
From: Stephen Izett stephen.izett@gmail.com <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: First engine run -- prop or not?
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 21:16:08 +0800
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Hi Finn

How does the mode 5 O2 sensor change work.
Ive not found this in the EC3 documentation.

Steve

> On 31 May 2020, at 4:08 am, Stephen Izett stephen.izett@gmail.com <flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Finn
>
> Thats good news.
> At some point I’ll plug the EC3 in and see what the EM3 reports.
>
> We’re finally back in the air and testing again after the last 3 months of responding to COVID here in Perth.
>
> Last mods included some reshaping of inlets and diffusers and tidying up the inlet manifold (grinding smooth some weld that had penetrated into the runners).
>
> Yesterday our Renesis 4 port max fuel flow is up 10% to I think a reasonably accurate 18 gal/hr at 7100rpm, 29.5 inch of MAP and mixture at best power.
> We burn our Australian Premium Unleaded with no Ethanol which I believe is 6.26 lb/gal so I’m thinking thats around 190hp.
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>> On 31 May 2020, at 12:58 am, Finn Lassen finn.lassen@verizon.net <flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote:
>>
>> Wrong engine code solved!
>>
>> I looked at the dates of files in the EC3CL folder. These files were not updated to the date I programmed the EC3:
>> ECCL8.cof
>> ECCL8.map
>> ECCL8.O
>>
>> <mcppihngfoiehjon.png>
>>
>> So I started from scratch:
>>
>> Unzipped the EC3CL folder.
>>
>> Set ENG = A8; LS2COIL, LGSEC and WIDEBAND to 1 and rest to 0.
>>
>> Did "Erase", "Clean" and "Build All" and "Program" in MPLAB and reinstalled chip for controller A.
>>
>> Now EM3 correctly shows "A8" for engine code.
>>
>> Changed to narrow band using mode 5, and EM3 display correctly changed from 16 to 12 for ENGINFO.
>>
>> I must have chosen the "Make" option in MPLAB when I first programmed the chips, I guess.
>>
>> Unfortunately I must have damaged the controller B CPU chip when handling it (MPLAB reports device ID = 0) and will have to order a new one.
>>
>> Finn
>>
>> Still waiting for the $1.79 shipped copper washers to arrive in mail. Maybe I should bite the bullet and order five (six) Stat-O-Seal washer/O-rings at $8.56 per pack of two. $25.68 total :(
>
>
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