Originally Posted by
John_M_
Your mind is like a cocaine addicts Bert, running a mile a minute, I can't keep up with your accelerated thought processes, I'm 74 Bert, not as sharp as I was
I apologize for that... I try to contain myself, but it is a thing that has caused me quite a bit of trouble including and up to a point where my employer had me examined to see if there was something wrong with me... My brain simply is wired that way.
Originally Posted by
John_M_
Right, with the sensors 90 to each other, and the magnets at 180. what was the reference to the "big bang" setup you mentioned earlier, I thought you were going for the exhaust sound from two cylinders firing simultaneously.
Nah, there are a lot of 90 degree angles and 180 degree angles involved in fourstroke engines , and I suddenly realized that the belt-pulleys of the camshafts can be fitted to those shafts 180 degrees out of position, which would mean that despite the pulleys being on the marks, the "phase" of each bank is undefined. That in turn means that unless I am mistaken, it is possible to run the engine either as "big bang" OR "small bang" and for the engine it would not matter since there is no ignition system or distributer, Only glow plugs.
It was merely the realisation that that was a possibility, that made me post it. From how the engine in the video runs, I would not be surprised, that Johnny's engine is (unknowingly) in the big bang configuration.
Effectively, the way I envision the ignition set up, it won't matter either, the engine will run in both cases because of the wasted spark principle