Re: New engine
Posted: Mon May 03, 2021 12:47 am
All that's very well Andrew but these engines do not lend themselves to ambidextuary moments about a point.
That means, for the non believers they run only one way.
i.e.
The wrong way.
So no good for all those folk North of the equator unfortunately for even those engines in the lifeboats there which run happily inverted will not change direction of rotation voluntary.
( Well looking from the flywheel end anyway )
Plus as a contributory factor consider vessels steaming across the equator continually for even those old engines not fitted with an anti reversing spring fitted in the pump ( as indeed with common rail ) it's not possible to start them up to run the other way (CAS sensors and all that stuff ) anymore.
( Something else that used to be fun to watch we are deprived of )
So all the foregoing requires addressing before further advances and designs can be made it would appear.
Something for Andrew to address when considering his next futuristic designs which are so far advanced and complicated that folk who have had a lifetime in the trade can only stand back and wonder why on earth they never thought of it first.
Such is the learning curve in life.
That means, for the non believers they run only one way.
i.e.
The wrong way.
So no good for all those folk North of the equator unfortunately for even those engines in the lifeboats there which run happily inverted will not change direction of rotation voluntary.
( Well looking from the flywheel end anyway )
Plus as a contributory factor consider vessels steaming across the equator continually for even those old engines not fitted with an anti reversing spring fitted in the pump ( as indeed with common rail ) it's not possible to start them up to run the other way (CAS sensors and all that stuff ) anymore.
( Something else that used to be fun to watch we are deprived of )
So all the foregoing requires addressing before further advances and designs can be made it would appear.
Something for Andrew to address when considering his next futuristic designs which are so far advanced and complicated that folk who have had a lifetime in the trade can only stand back and wonder why on earth they never thought of it first.
Such is the learning curve in life.