Fwd: eddy current brake
tom cloud
cloud at hagar.ph.utexas.edu
Tue Dec 17 18:23:02 GMT 1996
>Hi Tom,
>
>> ???? On a 4-cycle engine, the cam turns 360 deg for two rotations of
>> the crank, and it's the cam timing you're interested in. So 720 degrees
>> of crank equals 360 degrees of cam -- now you've got me wondering .....
>> when one looks for ignition timing, are you looking at crank or cam???
>
>4 Stroke has cams that make one rev per spark, so timing is from the
>cam, BUT the angle of timing advance that is doccumented is given
>in crank degrees because that is where it was measured in the
>past from the fanbelt pulley.
>
>Cheers *<<<-|
>--
>Kalle Pihlajasaari kalle at ip.co.za http://www.ip.co.za/ip
Are the marks on the damper in 'crank' degrees? I.E. if I put
a compass on the crank and found TDC could I mark it using the
compass?
Tom Cloud <cloud at peaches.ph.utexas.edu>
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