Hi!
I am building a fuel injection system for the gun I'm building. It employs a solenoid valve that will soon be controlled by an arduino board. I plan to solenoid valve to the chamber with barb fittings and tubing. Do you think I will have issues with hot gases entering/ blowing of the tube. Should I find some sort of one way valve? Thanks for any advice!!
Walter
Fuel injection question
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jackssmirkingrevenge
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I have done some experiments with arduino and solenoid valves, and even a direct acting valve has a relatively long response time, at least 10ms to open and 30ms to close. You will need a very fine nozzle for accurate metering. In this regard, a check valve is probably unnecessary.
I see a lot of trial and error in your future
will you be introducing compressed air too?
I see a lot of trial and error in your future
will you be introducing compressed air too?hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
I have considered injecting compressed air aswell, but I am having trouble decideing between that and a simple chamber fan to suit my needs. And yes, lots of trial and error for me! I plan to use a gradulated cylinder and a bucket of water to dial in the amount of propane released.
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Have you tried a bona fide gasoline or diesel fuel injector? I keep saying I'm going to play around with it but I destroyed the injector I pulled from the junkyard trying to remove the jets... I was thinking of measuring the volume of gas for different time intervals and doing a regression for fueling my launcher...jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:I have done some experiments with arduino and solenoid valves, and even a direct acting valve has a relatively long response time, at least 10ms to open and 30ms to close.
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Good idea!Walter103 wrote:I plan to use a gradulated cylinder and a bucket of water to dial in the amount of propane released.
Negligible.Solubility in water (1.013 bar and 20 °C (68 °F)) : 0.039 vol/vol
Experiments were with compressed air for an auto, more news on that eventually.Have you tried a bona fide gasoline or diesel fuel injector?
I was thinking of a 1/16 inch nozzle... what is your chamber size? If it's one litre, that's 42mL of propane to inject. That is not a whole lot of gas, and the explosive limits are pretty narrow so accuracy is paramount.Do you think a 3/8 inch nozzle would be small enough?
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
I think what I may do in just cap a piece of vinyl tubing, drill different sized holes in it, and see what kind of precision I can get with the different diameter holes...
I plan to use this system initially for a small gun to shoot .50 cal paintballs and other various projectiles. The chamber for that will be 2in x 3.5-4.5 in, so very small. I don't expect a whole lot of power out of that gun, but it should be fun regardless. I also may make this fueling/ ignition system interchangeable with my other larger gun.what is your chamber size?