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Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 22:02:04 -0600
From: Bob White <rlwhite@comcast.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: It is ALIVE!!!  First Start in Houston
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Seems like it contributed to a great disappointment first.  You just
have to think of it as turning on the disable. :)

I once sold a house.  The home inspector found the hot and cold water
to the shower was reversed.  It was one of those single knob units
where you had to rotate it to change the temperature.  If you turned it
clockwise, the water got hotter and it's supposed to get colder.  It
made more sense to me to turn it clockwise to get more heat but that's
not the way they are supposed to work.  (It wasn't me that installed
it either.) 

Bob W.

On Wed, 30 May 2007 22:45:20 -0500
"Christopher Barber" <CBarber@TexasAttorney.net> wrote:

> Yep, Bob, that is the one.  Thanks for the diagram....except for my little
> misreading, it was of great help.  I usually use switches "up" for on and
> that is what my little ol' mind was thinking.  Thaks again.  It contributed
> to a GREAT day.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob White" <rlwhite@comcast.net>
> To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:39 PM
> Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: It is ALIVE!!! First Start in Houston
> 
> 
> > Congratulations Dave and Chris.  Brings back memories of my first
> > engine start.  Are the switches you had to turn over the injector
> > disable switches?  If that was my diagram, up is for _disable_ and down
> > is for run!  As long as they work the way you want that's the way to
> > wire them. :)
> >
> > Bob W.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 30 May 2007 22:10:06 -0500
> > "Christopher Barber" <CBarber@TexasAttorney.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Oh, and for those playing along, we did install the check valve properly
> <g>.  So far only a minor oil leak from a plug in the engine Dave thinks he
> may have just snugged in by hand and forgot to tell me to get back to and a
> small coolent leak on a temporay hose connection.  Really, really small in
> both cases....almost non issues.  FWIW.
> > >
> > > Thanks again for y'all's support and well wishes.
> > >
> > > All the best,
> > >
> > > Chris
> > > Houston, Texas
> > > Ellington Field (EFD)
> > >
> > >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> > >   From: Christopher Barber
> > >   To: Rotary motors in aircraft
> > >   Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:54 PM
> > >   Subject: [FlyRotary] It is ALIVE!!! First Start in Houston
> > >
> > >
> > >   It actually started.  We turned it off and it started again.
> WAHOOOOO.  But a mear wahoooo doesn't quite express the amazing feeling and
> sense of accomplisment of first engine start of the 2nd gen, turbo housing
> 13b.
> > >
> > >   David and I rebuilt it about 1.5 years ago.  Dave did most the
> teardown, cleaning, measureing tolerance etc and we both rebuilt it
> following along Bruce T's video and the Haynes shop manual.  Dave final
> install on the CC engine mount and Tracy's PSRU.  I ran the wires,
> hoses...and the rest.  A true joint effort.
> > >
> > >   We tried last night to no avail.  Turns out when I wired the injector
> switches based on a great diagram from the Flyrotary list, the illustration
> stated "top" and I installed that end up with the swithes being up when on.
> However, when I was checking my wires this pm I noticed that power was
> coming through the switch when the switch was down.....doh!  So, I turned
> them over and rechecked the rest of my wires and grounds.
> > >
> > >   In a damn optomistic gesture while in a pessimistic mood, my hangar
> mate, Richard Sessions (who is restoring a VariEZ) and my S/O, Jana and I
> pushed the tale of the Velocity out the hangar door (of course it started
> sprinkling <g>) (Dave was still at work).  We took basic security
> procedures, ie showing Jana how to use the fire estingusher.  I turned on
> the switches (including the now correclty mounted injector switches), turned
> on the primary fuel pump, hit the starter button and DAMN, it
> fired.........SCARED THE HELL out of us.......you should have seen my two
> Cairn Terriers (Winston and Madison) head for the hills (well, Houston has
> no hills, but y'all get the idea).  We kinda looked at each other in a mixed
> shock and amazement and checke that we didn't blow anything off.  We
> actually mixed fuel, air, compression and spark and got
> combustion.....who'ed of thunk it?
> > >
> > >   We waited for the portable battery charger/starter to bring the
> battery back up and tried again. Switches up, Pumps on, press the starter
> button......damn, it  sputtered and started (after some cranking).  It
> started to rev really fast, or seeminly so, so I brought the throttle to
> closed, which didn't stop it, so I cut the fuel pump and it stopped. Go
> figure.
> > >
> > >   Well, we did this a few more times, never running it too long since we
> do not yet have sensors on it yet. Also, Dave got off work and came by to
> join the fun.  Just the fact it actually ran was great.  Now that Tracy
> should be getting back into town, we should be able to order the correct
> sensors to replace the ones that were missplaced along the way.
> > >
> > >   Not quite sure what to work on now.  Obviously we will want to smooth
> it out and get it to start easily.  It is currently running better on B than
> A.  I may have inavertanly changed someting on A while messing with it
> during start sessions (may need to reset A...donno yet).  I think I will now
> try to start to clean up the wiring so as to make it easier to manipulate
> the stuff in the cabin.  Righ now the panel is laying where the front seats
> should be.  So this may be a good starting point while waiting for sensors
> that will let me know I am not ruining my new engine.
> > >
> > >   Y'all's support and words of wisdom, along with Tracy Crooks great
> products it what helped make this a reality.  Thanks for being there.   NOW
> THE REAL WORK (read that as fun) BEGINS.
> > >
> > >   Dave will be posting a much more technical account soon....heck, I bet
> we both rushed home so we could annouce it to the world.
> > >
> > >   Thanks.
> > >
> > >   All the best,
> > >
> > >   Chris
> > >   Velocity N17010
> > >   w/ a Rotary 13b...that actually runs.
> >
> >
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