OliverJacob

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I just bought a 1/3 scale GPPitts with a Brillelli 46 and this plane has to be flown with smoke :-)
So I had a Sullivan pump laying around and I guess I will mix my own smoke fluid, I will try Kerosene / Diesel first.
This is my first experience with smoke, so I'd like to get some opinions.
The plumbing looks fairly easy, the pump comes with all lines and check valve, that should not be an issue. There is a scerw in the muffler and
I am sure that is where the fitting goes in.

Now I am not sure if the pump will put out enough oil with my 4.8 Volt battery, does anybody have the same setup?
Also do you mix the pump with the throttle or just turn it on with a switch?
I have a Futaba 8FG.

Also - any suggestions on the smoke oil mix (LHS is about 50 miles and never has what I need anyways).


thanks

Rafael23cc

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Where is this screw located? Is it at the "header" close to the cylinder? Or is it further away like the pressure nipple on nitro engines?

Rafael

OliverJacob

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At the header. It's a pitts style muffler and I am sure there was a fitting for smoke in there once.
The questions I have are more about the oil and the radio settings.

weazel1

try 80 percent diesel cut with trans fluid of any kind as for radio set up on my smaller ships it was just on and off but on my big ships i got it slaved with the throttle it works better that way

OliverJacob

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Thanks,

do you remember how to set up the radio mix?Iwould like to turn the pump on via switch and control the flow with the throttle.

weazel1

first slave the smoke channel to throttle then you have to play with the amount of pump volume kinda like setting up a heli for pitch change on throttle hope this helps