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George, I'm loving this thread. I have lots of old ME's from the forties and fifties, ETW was always reporting on the 'international' events post war, featuring the best of England against the incredibly popular Gems Suzor from France. Keep it coming. Ending with a vid in action.Cheers, Hugh.
I bet that rudder quadrant has tough duty!.....I take it the servo's are forward?Thanks for posting this....very interesting!Dave
That's very impressive George! Any idea of the RPM of your engine?
I have a lot of experience with high speed, radio controlled, model boats but no experience with flash steam. This series of posts was very interesting and reflects the state of the art in flash steam. For radio control you need more than just on and off, though. I read the treads on microprocessor controlled flash steam on Model Boat Mayhem. Has anyone considered a simpler, mostly mechanical system?It would seem to me that a servo controlled variable link between the two pumps and their crank something like that in the picture below would work. Modern radio systems allow variable mixing between the two channels that control the water and fuel pumps. That, along with the design of the linkages, would allow a variable ratio between the two pumps as well as control over the total flows. It all depends on how the engine responds to these changes. I notice that most flash steam engines have a means of varying the pumps' delivery. How does the engine respond to changes in the fuel and water flow?Lohring Miller