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Pulsejet book

Post by Hydrazine » Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:08 am

Hi Guys,

Several days ago I visited this website: http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet/pulsejetbook.shtml to purchase the online pulsejet book. Only problem is, I made payment but there has been no reply.

I even sent in several emails asking for a status but still there is no reply.

Any ideas? :?:

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Tony

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Re: Pulsejet book

Post by WebPilot » Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:41 am

Hi Tony,

Welcome to the forum.

I have moved your topic here to the "off-topic forum".

You have joined the several who have been 'bitten' in the past by that website owner, Bruce Simpson.

I don't why he does that. I have no advice but maybe someone else does.

Have fun here.

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Re: Pulsejet book

Post by Hydrazine » Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:10 pm

Thanks for the feedback. I'll contact paypal for a refund.

Otherwise, would you know where I can find pulsejet plans? 100+ lbf, tested and proven designs?

I've visited the sticky threads but many of the links no longer work. I also saw the note of changing the "2" to a "3" and it worked to an extent but there are a lot of dead links.

Thank you.

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Re: Pulsejet book

Post by metiz » Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:02 pm

Hey Hydrazine

To bad about the pulse-jet book. Paypal should give you a refund so no harm done probably (eventualy)

About the 100 pound pulse-jet: have you ever build a smaller pulse-jet? also, do you want a valved or valveless engine? If you manage to find plans for a valveless engine (valved engines can be calculated using Eric's pulse-jet calculator I belive) and decide to build it, be very carefull when running it. I do not know about valved engines since I have never build one but I can tell you that a good 100 pound engine will rattle your bones and give you a headache, knock the wind out of you etc - it can be quite uncomfortable to be near a running engine of that size. The fuel delivery is going to be a challenge to and dangerous if you do not know what you are doing!
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Re: Pulsejet book

Post by Kool » Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:17 pm

well, there are hardly any pulsejets on this forum from which I know they're around 100 lbf. :wink:
You could build the Lockwood Hiller, which puts out 55lbs of thrust and which efficiency is not very good. Another plan is from hinote, the ''Forum M1E'', I remember this one was 60lbs+ or so. Another (most current) pulsejet is the Thunderchine(55lbs). Beck technologies sells the Thermalpulse 180-70 which puts out around 70lbs of thrust.

If you really want a plan for a 100lbs pulsejet I think you should contact eric (beck technologies). But why do you want 100 lbs? 50 lbs is already enough to drive a go cart :wink:

I've found the book "the enthusiast's guide to pulsejet engines" and the book:''build a Lockwood pulsejet'' both from Bruce Simpson founded on the web(pm me for the address). But I wonder whether it was legal?
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Re: Pulsejet book

Post by Hydrazine » Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:08 pm

LOL :D
Yeah, 100 lbf is large and its not necessarily my build criteria but if I'm going to put the development and money into building one I may as well make it over the top fun. :mrgreen:

Or maybe a better way to define what would I would really like to work with is based on physical dimensions.... IE I already have a considerable amount of 6" diameter 0.065" wall stainless tubing. If I could use this 6" tubing to build the tail pipe section that would be great. 6" tubing is readily available and rolling a 8" or 9" diameter combustion chamber is easy enough to do.

Either way, I would like to utilize this 6" tubing I currently have. I can't wait to get one going. I've wanted to do this for a long time. 8)

BTW I have the plans for the Lockwood but it doesn't seem quite as appealing. What are these other you refer to? Links?

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Re: Pulsejet book

Post by Hydrazine » Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:20 pm

metiz wrote:Hey Hydrazine

To bad about the pulse-jet book. Paypal should give you a refund so no harm done probably (eventualy)

About the 100 pound pulse-jet: have you ever build a smaller pulse-jet? also, do you want a valved or valveless engine? If you manage to find plans for a valveless engine (valved engines can be calculated using Eric's pulse-jet calculator I belive) and decide to build it, be very carefull when running it. I do not know about valved engines since I have never build one but I can tell you that a good 100 pound engine will rattle your bones and give you a headache, knock the wind out of you etc - it can be quite uncomfortable to be near a running engine of that size. The fuel delivery is going to be a challenge to and dangerous if you do not know what you are doing!
I've built a couple small pulse jets, a ramjet and many rocket engines.

My greatest experience is by far in rocket propulsion. I worked as a rocket scientist at Boeing and Kaiser Marquardt. Lots of experience with Hydrazine/NTO systems and 98%H2O2/Jet fuel 10K lbf engines. My heart is in rocket propulsion but pulse jets are vastly safer by comparison. At least from a pressure and chemical handling point of view. :)

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Re: Pulsejet book

Post by WebPilot » Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:59 pm

Yepper ... 6 " for a tailpipe diameter looks like approx. 110 lbf thrust from my circular rule.

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Re: Pulsejet book

Post by Kool » Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:02 pm

note that the above post is for valved pulsejets. You could calculate the dimensions for a valved pulsejets(with in your case a 6 inch tailpaipe) wiht eric's pulsejet calculator(as metiz said), which could be downloaded at the homepage of www.pulse-jets.com

When you input 113.04lbs, you get a tailpipe diameter of 6 inch, which give an cc dia of 8,75 inch :wink:
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Re: Pulsejet book

Post by WebPilot » Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:51 am

nice job, Poeche

I dislike ,'s for .'s in decimal numbers. How do you guys 'across the pond' copy and paste the number into a calculator?
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Re: Pulsejet book

Post by Hydrazine » Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:37 am

Thanks for all the great info and links guys! This is very helpful.

Now that I have a chamber geometry, how do I go about calculating grid and valve parameters?
Total flow area and reed length, width, aspect ratios and thickness?

Equations, papers or general rules of thumb for valve design?

Thank you!
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Re: Pulsejet book

Post by Hydrazine » Wed Mar 03, 2010 5:59 am

WebPilot wrote:Yepper ... 6 " for a tailpipe diameter looks like approx. 110 lbf thrust from my circular rule.

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Is there an optimal ratio of pulsejet frequency / valve reed frequency?

I can't recall the specific thread but I think you mentioned the value is some number less than one.

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Re: Pulsejet book

Post by Hydrazine » Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:27 pm

Never mind, I found it. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4984

I've been searching threads from oldest to newest.

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