G'day All,
Thanks so much for the welcome, RF has alot of brain power on tap !
Thanks for the likes and the warm welcome, most appreciated. I struck the site after researching the little old 2 stroke " Skylark" Motor simply because I unearthed some paperwork relating to it in a carton of other rotax parts I recently acquired, which included a late 70's manual called " Proper care and Feeding of the Rotax". Got laugh out of that.
I found a service manual, advertising material, information sheet- brochure etc, There s also a bit of correspondence with Ron Lang who designed and built this little solution. I'll scan and publish this stuff and maybe send the originals the Melb. Aviation Museum. While the motor looks like a contraption of mower parts, it seems that there maybe more to it. Seems Ron Lang was / is ( anyone know whereabouts's these day's ? ) a design engineer that raced Motor bikes in Auss and Europe. Nice little piece of history anyway - I'll get the info onto here and you blokes be the judge.
Thanks Heaps oneTrack for the tip about the generator, I hadn't really thought about that, A series Hybrid config is the way that the Auto industry is favouring, so I'll dig through my pile of motors and stuff. I spent a while with OPE, Outdoor Power Equipment under Australia best Master service tech. so I might already have something leftover that I can start looking at straight away. Any one having issues with their motor just drop me a line - I might know something their.
I'll be off work for a little while soon so I will have a chance to publish info on what I have engines & motors wise, at least for the testing phase and I will put some info here on the Topology options for the motor drive / engine / redrive with combiner and electrics, as i see it. I'm no engineer though.
The topology will be more of a Weightology, induction motor would be great but heavy - that's what experiments are for !