Fwd: eddy current brake

[Charles Napier]

tom cloud wrote:
> 
> >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>


They are in crank degrees.

Charlie