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Old 04-04-2004 | 08:00 PM
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DMcQuinn
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Default RE: newbie needs help :(

this could be a pretty tricky project. In order to start a gas engine with a push button, you need an electric motor big enough to turn the motor over quickly. This in turn takes a pretty large battery to drive the electric motor. Then you need some mechanism to physically couple the electric motor to the gas engine. this coupling must become uncoupled after the engine starts. So you have to have some kind of clutch or one-way drive bearing to accomplish this.