I have a Non SE/SX titan. The turbine runs fantastic and I love it but heres the thing..

On start up, one of three things will happen, Just for the record I have not recorded any data relating to my observations but I have noticed a relationship between the bad starts and my ECU battery level.

The following three scenarios will be assuming the ECU battery was fully charged the night before.

1) The start up sequence will be normal.

2) The start up sequence will begin normally. When the Kerostart solonoid begins to click I will see smoke being ejected from the turbine, I assume this is the fuel smoldering or partially combusing. The turbine will not light and recently I have learned to simply abort the start immediately if I see this occouring.

3) This has only happened once, In my most recent start attempt last weekend. The start up will begin normally. When the solonoid begins to click nothing happens, No smoke no nothing. When I touch the kero plug during this type of start event. I can hold my finger on it for quite some time before I notice its hot. Normally you can only touch it beifly before you must pull away.

When Scenarios two and three happen. I wack my ecu battery with a 2 amp charge until the voltage is above or near 9V. The next start attempt is always fine.

The only thing I can think of is that I lengthened my ECU battery wires significantly in order to have the battery far forward in the nose cone. Maybe there is something els causing this? Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks, Pete