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Old 12-26-2007 | 12:57 AM
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Default RE: Echo BME twin


ORIGINAL: av8tor1977
Rysium.... Have you done any tests on standard two stroke glow plugs?
Right now I don't know what plug I have as there is no symbol on it. It is long reach without the idle bar. I just checked other plugs I have and most of them take the same current. The highest current 4.6A was on some unknown brand with idle bar. A3 is taking 3.8A, A8 is glowing on 3.6A (the initial current is around 4.8A and goes down when the plug starts glowing). The lowest current I measured was on KB-1 and it was 2.6A. All these measurments were taken from fully charged two ELITE3600 connected in parallel.

I believe, there is no difference on the type of the glow plug used when the glow plug is powered all the time. I can take any used glow plug (it may have no platinium left) and the engine will run. As long as it is long reach and it has coil intact. The good thing is that I'm taking "burned" glow plugs from guys running glow engines and I can have many usefull hours in my Poulan. In most cases "burned" glow plug means it has platinium stripped out so it can not work without glow battery any more, but I don't care as I run glow power all the time. That makes my engine even cheaper in running - free glow plugs .

BTW, I messed up, as I thought I was posting in gas-glow thread [8D].