Like having an angry wasp in my ear.
Delightfully simple little engine, I've only seen an old Zundapp one before IRL.
( , Mon 14 May 2018, 2:21, Share, Reply)
Delightfully simple little engine, I've only seen an old Zundapp one before IRL.
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Yes,
and the old BMW M1, The Mazda RX7 were the most common I believe and interestingly (for me at least) a selection of Norton bikes
(Edit-sorry, having actually watched the video now I see it mentions the above)
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and the old BMW M1, The Mazda RX7 were the most common I believe and interestingly (for me at least) a selection of Norton bikes
(Edit-sorry, having actually watched the video now I see it mentions the above)
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I stand corrected
I don't know why but for some reason I had always thought it was their only foray into Wankel usage.
( , Mon 14 May 2018, 15:36, Share, Reply)
I don't know why but for some reason I had always thought it was their only foray into Wankel usage.
( , Mon 14 May 2018, 15:36, Share, Reply)
They might well have a couple in there.
Miniature wankels are sometimes used in seatbelt pretensioners.
( , Mon 14 May 2018, 16:25, Share, Reply)
Miniature wankels are sometimes used in seatbelt pretensioners.
( , Mon 14 May 2018, 16:25, Share, Reply)
The charge drives a tiny little wankel motor.
https://jalopnik.com/watching-a-seatbelt-pre-tensioner-work-in-super-slo-mo-1790017803
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https://jalopnik.com/watching-a-seatbelt-pre-tensioner-work-in-super-slo-mo-1790017803
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TIL
Still can't get my head around how that would operate though, or why it would be considered better than an explosive in a piston.
( , Mon 14 May 2018, 20:23, Share, Reply)
Still can't get my head around how that would operate though, or why it would be considered better than an explosive in a piston.
( , Mon 14 May 2018, 20:23, Share, Reply)
At a guess
It acts on the spool, therefore a Wankel is actually a great choice because you're getting rotational energy out, with presumably far more torque than a mini turbine.
( , Mon 14 May 2018, 22:12, Share, Reply)
It acts on the spool, therefore a Wankel is actually a great choice because you're getting rotational energy out, with presumably far more torque than a mini turbine.
( , Mon 14 May 2018, 22:12, Share, Reply)
How they work is easy.
Instead of putting fuel+air in you just use compressed air. With Wankels you don't have any valves to worry about. It's the same basic principle as a steam engine, where all you're interested in is having a ready supply of a high-pressure working fluid and you're not especially bothered about how the energy gets put into it.
As to why, I imagine it's though the force is spread over a comparatively longer time rather than all at once, which might hurt the passenger more than the crash would, and they may be cheaper to recharge than the piston kind.
( , Mon 14 May 2018, 22:34, Share, Reply)
Instead of putting fuel+air in you just use compressed air. With Wankels you don't have any valves to worry about. It's the same basic principle as a steam engine, where all you're interested in is having a ready supply of a high-pressure working fluid and you're not especially bothered about how the energy gets put into it.
As to why, I imagine it's though the force is spread over a comparatively longer time rather than all at once, which might hurt the passenger more than the crash would, and they may be cheaper to recharge than the piston kind.
( , Mon 14 May 2018, 22:34, Share, Reply)
So it’s an external gas generator, using the wankel rotor as a turbine?
I’m still puzzled by the whole concept as that means the suck and squeeze phases don’t happen, the bang phase becomes the power phase, and blow carries on as normal. You’d need to vent the first half of the chamber to prevent any compressive resistance.
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I’m still puzzled by the whole concept as that means the suck and squeeze phases don’t happen, the bang phase becomes the power phase, and blow carries on as normal. You’d need to vent the first half of the chamber to prevent any compressive resistance.
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