I met with Pat Kelly (mechanical engineering chief technician) today in the New Engineering Building today and discussed transporting the engine into the college this weekend. There was no issue with me transporting the unit into the Thermodynamics test cell on Sunday and we agreed to work on getting it operational next week as per university safety requirements.
We also briefly discussed the following technical issues that remain unresolved:
- Cooling the engine - The most likely solution will be to use the marine heat exchange and pass water through it in an open loop
- Exhaust duct - Pat mentioned that an adapter fitting would need to be made and that it wouldn't be an issue
- Table for IT hardware and table for the engine - Pat will find something
Two new serial communication adapters also arrived in the post this morning and I hope to test them both out this evening and establish a reliable connection with the microcontroller. As a safety precaution, the second connector is a direct RS-485 to USB converter which will hopefully work for certain.
I still have an orginal communication kit available if you like for the whispergen, converter and software?
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