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Summation
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The PowerLite-100 Engine weight advantage provides a design for applications
requiring a significant built in performance and payload growth
capability.
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PowerLite-100 |
Turbo Power-Lite 100EFI |
T.A.E. 1.7 |
| Weight-Dry (lbs) |
200 |
215 |
295 |
| Max. HorsePower |
135 |
160 |
135 |
| Weight/Power |
1.48 |
1.34 |
2.19 |
| Installed Weight |
240 |
258 |
354 |
| Instld. Wt./Power |
1.78 |
1.61 |
2.62 |
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Principle of Operation
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The PowerLite-100 was initially designed and built as an aircraft engine, but
it lightweight, low-profile-high performance design has been determined an
excellent engine for Marine-Ground-Air applications. It is a 2 cylinder,
opposed piston, uniflow, two stroke, water cooled, compression ignition engine.
PowerLite-100 is unconventional in that as with a typical engine, which will have a
piston for each cylinder, the
PowerLite-100 has 2 pistons per cylinder meeting at
top dead center to form the combustion chamber. The engine fuel system
comprises a fuel pump and high pressure pipelines to the four injectors (2 per
cylinder).
With both pistons at outer dead center both the inlet and exhaust ports are
open. When both pistons move towards inner dead center, the LH or exhaust side
moving piston covers, and therefore closes the exhaust port, shortly afterwards
the inlet port is closed when the inward movement of the RH or inlet side
piston covers the inlet ports.
A centrifugal blower (Supercharger) forces fresh combustion air into the
cylinders via tangential inlet holes, These holes or ports create a spiral
motion, which aids combustion and scavenges the cylinder. On the inward stroke,
compression begins as soon as both sets of ports are covered, and the cycle is
repeated.
Gears with a central clutch dampened propeller drive, link the crankshafts.
Direction of Rotation is clockwise from the rear.
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