Fuel flow transducer before or after vapor lock?

Re: Fuel flow transducer before or after vapor lock?

by Przemysław Wiśniewski » 10 years ago

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Probably yes, it's no my but oryginal Ikarus C42 diagram from them webpage.

Re: Fuel flow transducer before or after vapor lock?

by Roger Lee » 10 years ago

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It isn't a good anatomically correct drawing and would hope it isn't actually plumbed this way.

You would be better off to look at the Rotax installation manual for a better representation of what should be done.

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Re: Fuel flow transducer before or after vapor lock?

by Przemysław Wiśniewski » 10 years ago

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Roger, I found that electrical system of Ikarus is funny too.. I made new electric due to rotax documentation.

Anyway FT60 is fully opened transducer (without any jet or restrictor inside). I'm going to install it just after vapor lock before carbuerators splitter. This should provide for me best accuracy, someone told me that it can cause vapor lock problems but I can't see any possibility for this.

Re: Fuel flow transducer before or after vapor lock?

by James Ott » 10 years ago

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I would certainly recommend that you NOT mount it on the engine. The FT60 is a sensitive instrument with a free turning turbine wheel on a couple of small bearings (think gyro but not that high speed). I don't think engine vibrations would be good for it.