Buddy wrote:
The new Cyclone Mark 10 engine is another milestone for Cyclone.
As Chuck had pointed out a while ago, you can tell when Harry Schoell has given up on making one engine design work when he announces a brand new design.
Cyclone has gone through a variety of models of the WHE engine, the Genie, the S-1 (solar), S-2 (the military genset engine), the Marks 2, 5, 6, 1, 3, 7 and now 10. Plus some others like the lawn mower engines.
The last few years Frankie has been portraying the Marks 1 and 3 as the saviors of the company, going into production real-soon-now and having worldwide dealers in place. From her letter to shareholders from November 2015:
Quote:
Dear Shareholders:
Cyclone Power has been working very diligently on its primary focus of getting product to market. We completed Beta testing and have made large strides towards the production of the Mark 1 (5.5 HP constant duty rated) and Mark 3 (22HP constant duty rated) engines. Our prime manufacturers and integrators will have final pricing available soon so that Cyclone can begin taking purchase orders for generators powered by the all fuel Cyclone engines. Cyclone's prime integrator for an all fuel generator has stated they will have product ready for delivery in Q2 of 2016. There are two additional OEM's ready to purchase the engines for integration into their products. One is an ATV (all-terrain vehicle-US based) and the other is solar (European).
Harry turning his attention to the Mark 10 means, like the Mark 5, the Marks 1 and 3 are being abandoned. (But, as Frankie will tell us, only until customers and investors put an acceptable level of funding in place.)
And I wonder if we'll ever find out what "completed Beta testing" really means? Every failed engine version has "completed Beta testing", sometimes more than once. I wonder if it involves Harry and Frankie getting totally stoned, making engine noises and pronouncing, "yep, completed Beta testing"?
