Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #51212
From: Al Gietzen <ALVentures@cox.net>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: alternative water pump
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 08:54:40 -0800
To: 'Rotary motors in aircraft' <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>

Al,

Are you sure of the 40 GPM?  That seems like a lot.  My radiator in/out is 1.25 inches, so the water would be traveling at 628 feet per minute at that flow rate.  That is over 7 miles per hour!

 

Bill B

When my 20B (with a 13B pump that Atkins referred to as ‘high flow’) was on the dyno the measured flow was 48 gpm with the standard pulleys.  I expect the dyno cooling loop was fairly low pressure drop compared to our typical systems, so I’m just guessing 40 gpm is in the ballpark.  628 fpm (10.5 ft/sec) would not be considered very high - - above 15 ft/sec I’d consider high.

Al

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