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Re: Europa-List: Fuel pumps in series can get blocked

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Fuel pumps in series can get blocked
From: Tony Krzyzewski <tonyk@kaon.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:03:10

The reason for the change to series based pumps is to bring the fuel pressure 
down
to that specified by Rotax. If you measure the differential fuel pressure
to airbox pressure as recommended then you'll find that the pressure delivered
by parallel pumps is too high.

Having said that. There are many 914's flying with parallel pumps as this is 
what
Rotax used to show in the installation manual.

Unless you intend retrofitting  the UMA pressure sensor there is no need to 
change.

For new installations the Rotax manual now shows pumps in series with bypass 
valves

Tony



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