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- From: hanners@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Robert Hanners)
- Newsgroups: rec.boats
- Subject: Re: Engine Intake Silencers
- Message-ID: <27671@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 12:09:22 GMT
- References: <lgkv9bINNa3c@cronkite>
- Reply-To: hanners@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Robert Hanners)
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Annapolis, MD
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- In rec.boats, billc@sextant.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill Courington) writes:
- > What's involved in fabricating a silencer
- >and what are the chances that it will do some substantial
- >good?
-
- The principals of an intake silencer are the same as exhaust silencers
- (mufflers) except... if the design is inadequate, you'll suffer a much
- greater loss in power than with the typical poor muffler. Getting the
- air charge *into* the engine is more difficult because you only have
- atmospheric pressure available to force induction, whereas you have
- the considerable potential exhaust pressure available to force exit
- of the burned charge.
-
- Such silencers are often used in engine rooms requiring a roving watch.
- A well designed induction silencer will take significant space, typically
- about 1/4 to half the size of the exhaust. The cooler gas is more compact
- but you otherwise have much the same problem and where to put the beast
- may cause headaches on most existing marine installations.
-
- For your situation though, where only moderate acoustic performance
- is needed, you may just "experiment". I would try a small muffler
- with openings on par with your exhaust diameter, connected via *heavy*
- wire reinforced hose to the intake, being careful to fit up a flame
- arrester as before.
-
- -- Bob
-
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- Robert J. Hanners "My comments; only mine." *DIASTOLE* 676673
- CD, NSWC, Annapolis, MD hanners@oasys.dt.navy.mil
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