Re: Measuring Prop Pitch from LeRoy Cordes on 2010-12-15 ([Indoor

From: LeRoy Cordes <lcordes_at_juno.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:36:59 GMT

Thanks a bunck, John. That at least gives me a starting point.Appreciate the help LeRoy Cordes
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From: "John Barker" <john.barker783_at_ntlworld.com>
To: <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Indoor_Construction] Measuring Prop Pitch
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:30:54 -0000

<p><br><br></p><div><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">LeRoy</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">As you suspect you cannot use the the pitch gauge in the same way for different diameters.  Leaving aside all sorts of 'what ifs' which can come in on such an imprecise term as 'pitch' I will say that the basic formula is as follows:</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">tan(theta) = (P/D)/pi(r/R)  that is the pitch/diameter ratio divided by pi and divided by r/R.</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">It is much more simple and informative to talk about pitch/diameter ratio than pitch alone.  Pi is the familiar 3.142 and r/R is the radius at which you are measuring the angle divided by the radius of the whole propeller.  Now there is one important place to measure propeller</span> <span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">blade angle and that is near the three quarter radius point.  This is because nearly all the work is done near there and also many propellers are terribly inaccurate as one goes along the blade.  For this reason it is better to calculate the blade angle required at that point for a certain P/D ratio and to make a triangle to check the blade angle at thatr point. To do this the formula can be simplified as follows:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"> </span> </div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">blade angle theta = arctan( (P/D)/2.356).   Just put your P/D into your calculator, divide by 2.356, press the arctan button and you have the angle to check your propeller blade at three quarter radius.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"> </span> </div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">I am not much into No-Cals but I think they use P/D ratios of about 1.5 to 2.  At P/D 1.5 you would need a blade angle of 32.5 degrees and for a P/D of 2 a blade angle of 40 degrees at the three quarter radius point.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"> </span> </div><div><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">John Barker - England</span></div><p><br><br></p><p></p></html>
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