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Pneumatic Engines
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lugnet.technic
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Tue, 15 Apr 2003 05:00:11 GMT
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Hi everyone,
As promised, I have been working on a more interesting Technic project. I
have made a couple pneumatic v4 engines which you can see here:
http://sparky.i989.net/rstehlik/pnengines.html
If you have any ideas on how to measure the power of these things, let me
know. It would be fun to scale it up and compare with real engines.
Rob
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| (...) It looks great! Have you thought about using it to power anything? As a car it shoudn't need a fly wheel. The cars momentum (geared up) will keep it smooth. I think it would be kind of quick. Just a thought. Nice work. :) Best regards, Paul (22 years ago, 15-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) You could time how long it takes to winch a small amount of weight hanging off the edge of a table top a certain distance. See the recent power pulling threads to see what I mean. From that you can figure out torque and horsepower. or You (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) It would be fun to make it a v8 with eight new double acting pneumatic pistons (if you had enough). Really powerful, but kinda big. Might take too much effort to pump it though. Guess it would be a v16 then, with 16 power strokes per cycle. MM (22 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic)
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