Re: Diesel Motors

nitroairplane Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:32 am

Kim wrote:OK...that makes sense...man, there are all kinds of twists to this stuff!
One thing for sure, I've got a friend I'm helping to get re-started in U-Control, and he has the sometimes irritating habit of picking up my engines and flipping the prop through with his ear up at the exhaust...says he can gauge the health of the reed that way... All that aside, I'm gonna have to hide the P.A.W. from him!

Is it and older one or the newer one?

microflitedude Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:50 pm

Big Al wrote:Sometimes there is confusion between our model diesels and the automotive/industrial diesels.
First off, our model diesel engines are compression ignition engines and are not true diesels. They do not operate on the diesel cycle. (That requires fuel injection to control the burning process).
We brought this misnomer on ourselves back when there were two prevailing types of automotive/industrial I/C engines. Those with spark plugs and those with out. Those with out were diesels. So we called our compression ignition engines diesels. It’s stuck and that’s OK, but we should be aware of the technical differences. Don't confiuse the two, they are a totally different breed of cat.
Al

This has always confused my brother - thanks for posting.

nitroairplane Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:15 pm

microflitedude wrote:
Big Al wrote:Sometimes there is confusion between our model diesels and the automotive/industrial diesels.
First off, our model diesel engines are compression ignition engines and are not true diesels. They do not operate on the diesel cycle. (That requires fuel injection to control the burning process).
We brought this misnomer on ourselves back when there were two prevailing types of automotive/industrial I/C engines. Those with spark plugs and those with out. Those with out were diesels. So we called our compression ignition engines diesels. It’s stuck and that’s OK, but we should be aware of the technical differences. Don't confiuse the two, they are a totally different breed of cat.
Al

This has always confused my brother - thanks for posting.

That a lot of people i always get can i run it on pump diesel coments from people.

Kim Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:15 pm

nitroairplane wrote:
Kim wrote:OK...that makes sense...man, there are all kinds of twists to this stuff!
One thing for sure, I've got a friend I'm helping to get re-started in U-Control, and he has the sometimes irritating habit of picking up my engines and flipping the prop through with his ear up at the exhaust...says he can gauge the health of the reed that way... All that aside, I'm gonna have to hide the P.A.W. from him!

Is it and older one or the newer one?

Just got it a couple weeks ago. It's on the stand, ready to be cranked up, put I've had so many things going on that I haven't had a chance to fuel and run it.