Return-Path: Received: from imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.70] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.8) with ESMTP id 611120 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:23:14 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.152.59.70; envelope-from=atlasyts@bellsouth.net Received: from [65.11.74.191] by imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.11 201-253-122-130-111-20040605) with ESMTP id <20050118042244.ZRNL2069.imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net@[65.11.74.191]> for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:22:44 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.4.030702.0 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:24:00 -0500 Subject: New discovery... From: Bulent Aliev To: Rotary motors in aircraft Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit For some time I was so proud my engine would start right away. The last time on Friday night I started it few times and everything was fine. Came back this morning and tried to start it again, no joy? For hours I tried everything, plugs, coils injectors, everything was fine. Kept cranking, fired once for a second and died again. Even starting spray didn't do it. The last thing (lunch time) I measured the voltage while cranking and it was 9V. Ahaaa! I remembered something about the computer not working below 9V. I hooked the charger and went for a long lunch with the airport bums..Came back in 3 hrs and BINGO! started right away many times. So the moral of the story is (I think?). If you have enough power to crank the engine, does not mean that it will start. The starter pulls down all the available juice and the computer takes a break. Any comments? Buly