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At approximately 3:30
P.M. my SQ2000 slipped the surly bounds of Earth....made a couple circuits
around the airport and had an uneventful (yawn) landing.
Congratulations Paul! I was
thinking about you as the winds started to die down around here. I
thought you'd probably go. BTW- I changed the subject line to show
your proper place in the flying world :-)
From 1/4 to 1/2
throttle, engine accelerates smoothly and plenty of power. As soon as I try to
go above 1/2 throttle, the engine begins to bog down. Advancing the throttle
more only made it bog down even more.
I bet you wish you had tied your
plane down and ran it full throttle on the ground. I'll never
understand why people don't do that. I'm coming over there to put the boot
on your plane until you prove this is fixed
:-)
I have to work on the power problem
ASAP. I'm thinking it is mixture related.
You could certainly be
correct. I'm assuming you don't have a mixture gauge, but do you have
an O2 sensor for your MicroTech? If so, you can probably also connect
it to a panel gauge, even if you're only hooking it up
temporarily. For a ground test, you can even stick an O2 sensor in
your exhaust pipe, as long as you can make sure and secure it so it doesn't go
in the prop. I will let you use my old Mixture monitor gauge for testing
if you want to.
Remind me what prop you're
using. Is there any chance it's way too big? That might also
cause some problems.
Again, congrats, and welcome to the
ranks of the flying tinkerers :-)
Cheers,
Rusty
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