Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 23:44:37 +0200 From: "MH" <nomailnopsamhere.no> Subject: Re: turbo question
> No, if the rod comes off nothing is _closing_ the wastegate,=20 > so it swings completely open at any amount of exhaust pressure. That is how I would design it, intrinsic safety; if something breaks it = should lead to a non dangerous situation. (Like railway signals, that will go on 'stop' if something breaks or if = power fails and not like the Tsjernobil nuclear plant that needed = electric power to lower the control rods into the reactor to stop the = runaway nuclear reaction, that electric power was not available because = of some other malfunction.) ------------------------------------------- MH '72 97 '77 96 '78 95 '79 96 http://go.to/saab96