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From: "George Lendich" <lendich@optusnet.com.au>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: MSD coils - Plug Fouling... again.
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 08:11:37 +1000
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Jerry,
Tell him to consider a single rotor- with PSRU.
George (down under)

> Perry are you still using direct drive?  What  max RPM are you or  
> were you using, what prop, etc.  A friend who is building a Buttercup  
> (Steve Whitman design) that only needs 100/125 hp.  13B with redrive  
> is too heavy but without a drive it is a possibility.     Jerry
> 
> On Dec 8, 2006, at 1:43 PM, Perry Mick wrote:
> 
>> I just installed a CDI system on the leading coil in my RX-7,  
>> testing it out before possibly putting it in the airplane.
>>
>> I don't have an issue with carbon plug fouling, only the dreaded  
>> lead. Is the lead fouling an insulation effect (a lead compound) on  
>> the electrode? If so, then I could see where a CDI system would  
>> help punch through. However, if the plugs are fouling because the  
>> lead puts a conductive film on the ceramic insulator, causing the  
>> electrode to be shorted to ground, then maybe a CDI system can't  
>> help with that?
>>
>> Interesting stat:  I have never ever in hundreds of hours flooded  
>> the rotary engine on my Long-EZ. It always starts on the first crank.
> 
> 
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