Max Johansson
Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 25 Location: Helsinki, Finland
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:13 am Post subject: 912 oil termostat or perhaps a heat exchanger |
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Les
Another possibility to get the oil temperature up fast
in a safe way is to install a heat exchanger between
the water and the oil flow. Because locally there has
been several successfull cases of using a small aluminum
"Laminova" type heat exchanger and no separate oil
radiator at all I decided to go for this too.
But the original water radiator need to be well placed
to begin with with sufficient air suck out to take the
extra heat load in summertime. Have no results yet but
can send a picture of my 701 heat exchanger installation
if you are interested.
rgrds
Max
Max Johansson, Helsinki,
just now installing a 912S in my 701SP
Quote: | On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Les Goldner
<lgold(at)quantum-associates.com> wrote:
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> Although it was 60 degrees Fahrenheit today,
> I still had to wait 15 minutes for my 100HP 912ULS oil
> to get to 120F+degrees so that I could take off.
> While waiting, it dawned on me that maybe I need to consider
> a bypass thermostat for the oil cooler/radiator.
> There is no mention of such a bypass in the Rotax
> Installation Manual or in my Zenith 701 manual.
> Have any of you installed oil bypass thermostats? Is this something
> that I should consider adding, or will it just add another point of
> potential failure that should be avoided?
> Les
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_________________ Max
Max Johansson, Helsinki, Finland
Building a CH701SP-912S
on CZAW amphibian floats |
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