In self-starting injectors an arrangement is provided which permits free overflow until the injector starts into action, when the openings are automatically adjusted to suit delivery into the boiler.
Some injectors will work hotter water than others.
If unable to raise the water level to the lower gauge cock would smother the fire or put it out entirely, if necessary, keeping both injectors working.
Would open the throttle and endeavor to raise water until both injectors would put enough water into the boiler to make it entirely safe to close the throttle.
In using several systems of spray injectors for locomotives, the author invariably noticed the impossibility of preventing leakage of tubes, accumulation of soot, and inequality of heating of the fire box.
For this object nearly all the known spray injectors have very long and narrow orifices for petroleum as well as for steam; the width of the orifices does not exceed from ½ mm.
The fuel injectors were "a crude and deficient mechanism" subject to rapid wear, and often these injectors caused smoking exhausts and high fuel consumptions.
Hatch of the National Air Museum, it is possible that the engine failed because the fuel injectors became clogged.
This was finally worked out by Packard through the use of glow plugs and speeding up the injectors during the cranking period.
Can a continuous feed be maintained if injectors are used?
When injectors are used, however, the feed will be intermittent, and a uniform quantity of water in the boiler is best obtained by feeding at short intervals, stopping the feed when the fire door is opened much, as when cleaning the fire.
Two injectors are furnished with this engine, and the use of the injector is recommended, contrary to the general belief that a pump is more economical.
All injectors are greatly affected by conditions, such as the lift, the steam pressure, the temperature of the water, etc.
In locomotive practice, injectors are used because there is no exhaust steam available for heating the feed, this being utilized in producing a forced draft, and because of space requirements.
In power plant work, however, pumps are universally used for regular operation, though injectors are sometimes installed as an auxiliary method of feeding.
Feed pumps are rarely used for pumping the water into the boiler, injectors in duplicate being depended on.
Water is supplied to the engine by pipes leading from the tank to injectors on the engine.
The fact that I never received a single complaint from either of them was evidence to me that the makers of these two injectors are very careful not to allow any slighting of the work.
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