phil munga Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 (edited) Hi all, I'm trying to find information about an APU turbine engine mainly what it would have been fitted to ,, bellow are the details from the engine plates ,, KHD = I know this Klockner-Humbolt-Deutz APU = Aux power unit Type 312 Serial no 122 P/N 287 2358 KZ Spec/n = Sp-p-52 601 Tags on starter ( genny? ) type C16504 EXP ser.no 121/1972 24-28-5 V.D.C. Rotax LTD London Eng. 2nd starter tag serial No 121 2874013 k Ignition 1-Joule H.E.I.U NB11103 EXP 5 Ser No 111 1/p 24VDC O/P 5-10KV Rotax LTD London The engine with 8to1 reduction Female type drive I know there seems to be quite a few people on here that are good at working out what all these numbers mean Edited December 27, 2009 by phil munga Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff66 Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 tornado ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil munga Posted December 28, 2009 Author Share Posted December 28, 2009 Yes the bloke I bought it from thought it might have been from a Tornado but then thought it might have come from a helicopter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fesm_ndt Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 Is it this one http://www.corestore.org/turbine.htm ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil munga Posted December 29, 2009 Author Share Posted December 29, 2009 (edited) Thanks for that Mike the bloke that bought the engine from me flew over from the U.S and was traveling up to a property in Scotland so I'd say that this is my old engine that is pictured , I just wanted to find out a bit more about it as I found the folder containing its details the other day , when he bought the engine he left me his website details but somehow I misplaced it ,it looks an Interesting website , When I bought the engine I went down to ( before name changed ) Teeside Airport to find out a bit about the engine and a mechanic came out with some cans of oil for it , and advised be to be very careful with it , one of his colleagues has white hair after getting a shock from the ignition ,, and another had fitted a similar engine into an allegro and on the second test run he said that the engine exploded sending a piece of titanium impeller through the bulkhead killing the driver so I never really did much with the engine , On getting home after the airport visit the police turned up asking to see the said engine saying that they had been informed by airport staff that the average man on the street should not have an engine like this , I showed them the receipts for the engine and they were happy and left ,, Edited December 29, 2009 by phil munga Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fesm_ndt Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 The HEIU(High Energy Ingnition Unit) is like a vehicle coil on steroids. I doubt it would give you white hair unless you were vey lucky as they are touted that they will kill you. Only on when spooling up as it runs the ignitor and is the ticking noise. Once the fire is running it's turned off Damn I am having flashbacks :shocked: You should have put it in your Raidtrac :cool2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff66 Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 i would say the people at teeside were a bit cheeky its a gas turbine engine designed to out electricity and air thats it ,as for calling the police way over the top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff66 Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 another thing any aviation mech knows to wait at least 5 mins before touching ignition system and then disconnect l.t side of the ignitor boxs etc. so it was his fault he got a shock not a fault of the apu.( for fun look up pulse jet on u tube ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil munga Posted December 30, 2009 Author Share Posted December 30, 2009 It was said that the ignitions were not to be opened after being turned on for 12 hours ,, Yes I thought it a bit strange for the police to come looking at the engine and when they did they didn't have a clue what they were looking at , It could of been a washing machine drum with a load of pipes on for all they new ,,,, some blokes not far from me have a couple pulse jets , make a right racket when they fire em up , not as bad as another chap though he's just got quite a large gas turbine engine to go in an old cortina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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