Hi Guys I am looking at an electric unit for my KR2 MGM Compro 70Kw.
electric motor, the electric motor weighs approx 14 KG plus the
controller, plus battery
I have a VW Happi but the price of fuel is going up, so why not try an
electric Unit.
Regards Robin Macdonald New Zealnd.
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From: "GARRY COWLES via KRnet" <krnet@list.krnet.org>
To: krnet@list.krnet.org
Cc: "GARRY COWLES" <babyw...@aol.com>
Sent: 9/04/2022 9:12:54 am
Subject: Re: KRnet> Composition of a KR 2 with Subaru EA 81
Check out Fisher Flying. They are putting together a 80hp electric with battery
and controller for maybe 10 grand
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On Apr 8, 2022, at 3:37 PM, Randall Smith via KRnet <krnet@list.krnet.org>
wrote:
Until he popped up with my name I wasn't gonna say anything. I would not
waste my time with that Subaru. Les had a total of about an 4 1/2 hours on his
KR I had about 60 hours on it. He had troubles with a reddrive it could never
produce the horsepower it says it's supposed to produce. the radiator takes up
a lot of space so there's a lot of drag through the cowing. it's heavy once you
add everything up including the water. I sold it to a guy down south of Waco I
believe somewhere around Georgetown and I know he had a problem an the engine
quit and he put it in a pasture I don't know what happened to it after that.
Les was a Tinker and he was really good at it. But he could never get that
thing to perform like it was supposed to. I would fly it for an hour or two and
he'd work on it for a week or two. I flew it to one or two flyings. and I
believe he trailered it to two of them.
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On Apr 8, 2022, at 10:34 AM, Mark Langford <m...@n56ml.com> wrote:
Arie Post wrote:
I did come across another article on the site by Les Palmer.
He also has an EA 81 sitting in front of his KR 2 there.
He seems to have flown with it.
What about him, is he still flying it?
Could I possibly receive his email address?
I also came across an article by Ken Thomas.
He is flying a Subaru EA 82 there, what about him?
Ken removed the Subaru and installed a Jabiru. I don't know the details of
why, but it's not uncommon. My thought when it had a Subaru in it was that it
looked like it had a filing cabinet or a small refrigerator under the cowling!
The water cooling system takes a lot of space. Ken is long gone, but I saw his
airplane in a photo of what I believe was an Alabama hangar that had been hit
by a tornado. I'll leave the Les Palmer KR to Randy, who has flown it, and
is likely still on KRnet.
Steve Makish and Bob Lester both built planes with Subarus, and later swapped
them out with Corvairs. Their advice was that the Subarus would pound out the
crankshaft bores (like VWs do after many years using the stock crankshaft).
Corvairs don't have that problem, although I realize that Corvair engines are
not widely available outside of the US.
Mark Langford
m...@n56ml.com
http://www.n56ml.com
Huntsville, AL
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