REFLECTOR: Update on my Subaru installation

[Rene Dugas]

I have a duct to the windshield directly below my line of sight. Never  
have had any fog problems in over 450 hr.  Down side is the  
differential heating has caused crazing directly in front of me in a 6  
inch egg shape. It's not bad but irritating. Don't know how to prevent  
it or how I would do it over. Just FYI.


Rene' Dugas
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On Mar 29, 2009, at 10:17 PM, "Alex Balic"  
<velocity_pilot at verizon.net> wrote:

> Hi Kurt-
>
> I have one of those fittings- from a wet-dry vac as I remember- I  
> was going to use it on the floor but did not- I will see if I can  
> get it up on the window area in front of my seat-
>
> Don’t work too hard!
>
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>
> Alex
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> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org]  
> On Behalf Of nmflyer1 at aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 8:14 PM
> To: reflector at tvbf.org
> Subject: Re: 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 di 
> scharge plenum to allow me to just dump the air into the nose compar 
> tment- not sure if there would be a low pressure area in there thoug 
> h- 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.
>
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> Alex
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