Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #6906
From: Russell Duffy <13brv3@bellsouth.net>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: No rev-2 flying yet (Tracy, see comments in red)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:33:42 -0600
To: 'Rotary motors in aircraft' <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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My guess is that it  appears that when closing the throttle very rapidly, you probably end up with an overly  rich intake manifold air/fuel mixture.  This may occur because in one fraction of a second you are  opearting at WOT (lots of fuel flow)  and the next down to idle.  So the rpm drops down in to the LOW, LOW range due to the rapid decrease in manifold pressure caused by the rapid throttle closure and still rapidly pumping rotors.  So its down in the low rpm range with a rich mixture and then since the rpm is so low,  the manifold pressure may well creeep back up to the 16-17" Hg range simple because there is  not enough rpm to keep the manifold pressure lower.  So now the system is seeing   higher manifold pressure.  Since the system only really uses the manifold pressure (and not rpm) in its calculation, the higher manifold pressure convinces itself that  you have opened the throttle a bit (while you actually have not) and so it dumps in a bit more fuel. This keeps the mixture overly rich as there is really not as much air coming into the system.  Once you crack the throttle a bit, more air flow leans out the mixture, rpm increases, manifold pressure actually decrease back to 14-15" Hg and the system stabilizes. 
 
GREAT explanation!!!  That's got to be exactly what's happening.
 
Thanks,
Rusty (now I can ignore that "problem") 
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