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The cast aluminum thing underneath the engine is a dynamometer. It can be used to apply a load to the engine, or it can spin freely with no load.
The engine panel:
The two black knobs on the lower left are air pressure regulators. In one shot you can see a red compressed air hose connected. These are for the burner. One pressurizes the fuel tank to push fuel to the burner (taking the place of a fuel pump) and the other is the air that atomizes the fuel in the burner. The two bottom pressure gauges show the air pressure each is set to.
The lever on the bottom right "By-Pass Perge", meaning 'purge', probably has something to do with the fuel-air mixture. In this shot the two temperature readouts are dark, but they were on when Harry was starting the burner. Those temperature readouts might be used to adjust the fuel-air mixture to the hottest flame.
The pressure gauge on the top right doesn't say what it is, but it is reading 500 psi, so it is probably the boiler pressure. The one below it, "pan pres", would be the pressure inside the engine crankcase. They had a lot of trouble with the Mark 5 not being able to condense steam well enough, and that causes the crankcase pressure to rise.
The one that says "TORQUE", which is also dark, is actually a tachometer.
None of the gauges indicate the engine is producing any power.
Back in 2012 after being unable to deliver the promised engine to Chuk Williams for his land speed record car, Harry hired Nelson Hoyos, created the "Performance Division" and spent a lot of money having a custom land speed racecar built. At the time he used to brag on the steam car club bulletin board about a Mark 5 engine "runnin' sweet on the dyno" setting one power record after another. No one else has ever admitted to seeing that engine being dyno tested. Harry constantly refused to give out any details or proof when asked about his claims. And the car has never even run in a parking lot.
Short videos of engines spinning under no load combined with PRs claiming great things were happening soon has been standard operating procedure for Cyclone for several years. None of those predictions have ever come true.
Over at Q2Power, Chris Nelson's split-off WHE division, they still have that contract with Phoenix Power that says they will get a $150K progress payment when their engine runs under part load without breaking down for 200 hours. They still haven't been able to do this yet. The licence between Cyclone and Q2Power says they have to share any technology developments. So neither can make an engine last very long.
The engine panel:
The two black knobs on the lower left are air pressure regulators. In one shot you can see a red compressed air hose connected. These are for the burner. One pressurizes the fuel tank to push fuel to the burner (taking the place of a fuel pump) and the other is the air that atomizes the fuel in the burner. The two bottom pressure gauges show the air pressure each is set to.
The lever on the bottom right "By-Pass Perge", meaning 'purge', probably has something to do with the fuel-air mixture. In this shot the two temperature readouts are dark, but they were on when Harry was starting the burner. Those temperature readouts might be used to adjust the fuel-air mixture to the hottest flame.
The pressure gauge on the top right doesn't say what it is, but it is reading 500 psi, so it is probably the boiler pressure. The one below it, "pan pres", would be the pressure inside the engine crankcase. They had a lot of trouble with the Mark 5 not being able to condense steam well enough, and that causes the crankcase pressure to rise.
The one that says "TORQUE", which is also dark, is actually a tachometer.
None of the gauges indicate the engine is producing any power.
Back in 2012 after being unable to deliver the promised engine to Chuk Williams for his land speed record car, Harry hired Nelson Hoyos, created the "Performance Division" and spent a lot of money having a custom land speed racecar built. At the time he used to brag on the steam car club bulletin board about a Mark 5 engine "runnin' sweet on the dyno" setting one power record after another. No one else has ever admitted to seeing that engine being dyno tested. Harry constantly refused to give out any details or proof when asked about his claims. And the car has never even run in a parking lot.
Short videos of engines spinning under no load combined with PRs claiming great things were happening soon has been standard operating procedure for Cyclone for several years. None of those predictions have ever come true.
Over at Q2Power, Chris Nelson's split-off WHE division, they still have that contract with Phoenix Power that says they will get a $150K progress payment when their engine runs under part load without breaking down for 200 hours. They still haven't been able to do this yet. The licence between Cyclone and Q2Power says they have to share any technology developments. So neither can make an engine last very long.
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