Sullivan Megatron Double Handle Airplane Starter

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I use that starter for my 40 la

Kmot ....

....[X(]....how do you carry the battery that goes with that starter ?

FBD.

It is not specific to the engine, but to the modeler...

Someone using such a starter is an owner of a 23 cc (1.40) engine, or larger, who has not yet learned to respect his engine...

Someone who doesn't know how to easily hand-start the engine and for whom every start is a battle against the engine... instead of a collaboration between himself and the engine.


This is a piece of useless, expensive, heavy and cumbersome equipment that we can all do without.

I prefer the Sullivan Megatron Double Handle Chicken Stick to start my engines.

The magnetos on some of the big gas burners need to spin about 600 rpm before they will generate enough voltage to fire the spark plug. This is easy enough to do with the engine's original pull rope starter on the chain saws they were intended for but requires a serious slap on the prop of a model airplane.

Peronally, if I had such an engine and $325 to spend, I would convert that money into an electronic CDI battery powered ignition system and save the weight of the magneto flywheel instead of spending it on this starter.

Glow engines, on the other hand, are so easily hand started that I see no need to own an electric starter. Just one more battery to charge and more weight in my field box.

I think I saw a guy start his hill climb Harley Davidson with one of those!

Most of the Harleys that I've seen were tow-started behind a car

Yup. Thats how you get them to run on cold days like today. Being in Canada I am sure you see alot of that.

That starter would be perfect for starting my Saito 182, If i got rid of the bicycle handle on it I could have a huge fuel tank in my truck and still get the starter in to start it. But there is no way I'm spending that much!

This is my version of that that, this starter would not start my Saito 1.50 using a 275 AMP garden tractor battery, I put the Miller 4to1 reduction on it and now it starts my G45 with ease.

A reduction drive also allows you to use a lightweight low capacity 24v battery. Direct drive would require a heavier battery.

I've seen the Sullivan Megatron Double Handle Airplane Starter used in a video while he starts a gasoline engine.

I always see the gas guys hand propping so I did not think this starter was for gas engines. But BLE put that into perspective about the mag's.