REFLECTOR: Update on my Subaru installation

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Alex, 

I haven't heard any noise from my blower or controller yet, but I haven't been monitoring the radios much yet. A "T" would work for the defroster. I have a 2" line coming to the foot compartment of each side. Then I have a 1" line going to the defroster duct. I made the defroster duct out of a small plastic piece from a vacuum. It has the flange, and the deflectors to blow the air over a wide area. Then I just hooked up a piece of scat to it. I read about that somewhere and it really is convienient & works well. No valve or anything, just trying to keep it simple. 

The exit for my cooling on the blower/heater uses the aft facing discharge scoop that came with my kit. 

I'll try and scavenge some pictures to send you directly, but it may take til tomorrow night. Have to work tonight til 10 then back at 8am. 

Kurt 


-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Balic <velocity_pilot at verizon.net>
To: 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list' <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 5:39 pm
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Update on my Subaru installation




Kurt-

I have seen a velocity with some extensions to the top of the NACAs that sort of make them ram scoops- probably you could just do that if you come up a little short on cooling- I might use a solid state control on my blower too, but the one I tried gave me some radio noise, so I went back to the resistors- I was thinking of adding a small T to blow some air up on the windshield= do you
 do that or have a dedicated valve for that? – I might add a trap door to the discharge plenum to allow me to just dump the air into the nose compartment- not sure if there would be a low pressure area in there though- might need to add something to the door area to make that happen.

I look forward to looking at your pictures when you get a chance.

 

Alex

 


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