Would it be possible to have a pulsed valve and a throttle feeding the same
chamber? I'm thinking of in a parallel injector configuration. Pulsed flow limited
to half the trottled flow. A single throttle valve feeding all four engines through
a manifold for sustained lift and pulse valves on each engine for attitude control.

- Could it be made to run clear through a standard cat pack, that is not milky
- The two feeds in to the same chamber would make for some interesting flow
problems P1, P2 differences times 2 systems, 4 engines using one pressure
difference from the manifold and each engine having a separate pressure difference
from the pulsed valves. I have attached a drawing, but I haven't a clue on the
math.

John Carmack wrote:

> At 11:57 PM 10/2/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >And you have achieved deep throttling with off the shelf ball valves and
> >actuators?
> >What range are you achieving and most important at what rate? With out the out
> >board pulsing thrusters could you land softly? This of course would have
> >to be  on
> >a vertical rail to null out instability.  Just simple up and down controll
> >with the
> >center main engine.
>
> You can crack the valve open and just get a push of wind out of the
> engines.  At normal voltage, the fast KZCO valves go from full open to full
> close in 0.8 seconds.  If you run it at 24 volts, it drops to 0.5 seconds,
> but probably isn't good for the motor.  Note that ball valves do most of
> their opening in only 50% of their travel, so partial adjustments are even
> faster than they sound.
>
> We are moving back to four equal engines instead of a big engine and
> attitude engines for our future propulsion systems, and I don't expect any
> significant problems.
>
> John Carmack
>
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