I think I should have stopped at
12.5/second, since there’s one coil per cylinder.
Mark
(Now Rusty has me correcting myself)
From: Rotary motors in aircraft
[mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Mark R Steitle
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006
11:12 AM
To: Rotary
motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: LS1 Coil
Failures
Yes, that’s the beauty of a
V-8. Also, 1500 rpm @ cruise would be in OD mode.
Rechecking my math again…
V-8 LS1 Engine
Cruise rpm – 1500
Each cyl fires once/2 rev = 750
firings/minute
750 Divided by 60 sec = 12.5
firings/second
12.5 divided by 8 cyl = 1.56
firings/coil/sec
Rotary Engine
Cruise = 6000 rpm
Each rotor fires once/rev = 6000
firings/rotor/minute
6000 divided by 60 sec = 100
firings/second/rotor
Rusty, please check my math. ;-)
That’s a big difference!!!
Mark S.
And do you really cruise down the highway at only 1500
rpm?
Al G