Sounds like a possible
wiring cross up John. YES, the ground wires going to the injectors from
the EC-2 do control the on/off of the injectors. The injectors has 12
Volts applied to one of its two pins, the other pin runs to a injector grounding
pin on the EC2 (don’t have my diagram right handy). When the EC2 is not
running but there is power to the injectors there will be 12 volts on both sides
of the injector. This is because in order for the EC2 to open the
injectors it has to complete the circuit to ground. When the EC2 does
ground its end of the injectors lead, then current flows through the injector,
yanking it open and fuel flows. So if there is for some reason power to
the injectors and for ANY reason one of the injector wires is unintentionally
grounded that injector will lock full open and if pumps are running will quickly
flood your engine. The EC2 does not have to be running for this to happen
if your wiring has a short to ground on one (or more) of the wires running from
the injectors to the EC2.
So check it out.
It sounds like when you put the fuse in then you are providing the power to the
injectors which appear to have their EC2 side continuously grounded (at least
one of them). The EC2 when operating will periodically ground the
injectors to open them – but, will not ground them when turned off (or rather
SHOULD NOT). So check with a volt ohm meter between each of your injector
leads going to the EC2 (I presume there are 4). Put one lead of the ohm
meter on each of the injectors wires going to the EC2 and the other lead
to a known electrical ground with the ohm meter scale (if its not automatic) set
say on 100 Ohms or thereabouts. , I am not certain what the ohm reading
should be – but it should not be very low. if its reading less than 50
ohms there is probably something shorted, if the reading is near 1 ohm then its
almost certain you have a short to ground.. In other words if
you have anything indicating that an injector lead to the EC2 is grounded then
that is the problem.
Ed
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:59 PM
To: Rotary motors
in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] fuel
injection
Ed, I ran the engine again after
supper tonight until it was warmed up, with the normal procedures, shut it down
and let it sit for 15 minutes with master off. Turned on the fuel pump,
removed the fuse going to the primary and secondary switches and left the
switches in the off position and started the engine, which started
immediately. If I put the fuse in for the fuel injection, the wire that
Bob White said was the fuel injection, the engine loads up with fuel. I'll
do some checking tomorrow. Does the ground wires going to the injectors
from the EC-2 control the injectors.
JohnD