RCA
couldn't sleep last night, and was surfin around and came up on your setup again
an observation for what it is worth
make and install an air intake safety shutdown for your engine
in the event that the chinese governor fails for whatever reason and you have a runaway
i don't think you want that flywheel spinning up to 3 or 4 k rpm.
i am fairly certain it would not only wreck your day, your machine, but maybe you or a loved one
or maybe even the neighbor you don't get along with.
for some reason, i had this nagging thing in the back of my mind and then it dawned on me
many years ago as a kid i built a twin engine gokart
in my haste i threw together all my gearing and got it wrong
it was an excersize in ultra slow speed operation
the engines never got up to even a low idle, more like a plung.. plung... plung
and the damn thing was going so fast down the street it was pulling the tears out of my eye's!
if it had actually got up to a fast idle i am sure i would have met an untimely death.
God protects idiots and children,,, (i was both and idiot and a child)
by the time we get to be adults, i personally think God just sits back and watches the mayhem unfold
anyway the moral of the story,, be safe
i really dread the day we learn of our first serious injury or death on this forum.
on a lighter note
i know you have been designing and working on this for some time, what are your intentions for the unit?
is it primarily a testbed? or are you planning on using it on a more or less daily basis?
bob g