Having seen many engines (and made several myself) with many different systems, I have decided that it is finally time to (attempt) to standardize PT's engine electronics. So I made a public copy of my engine circuitry that works for any engine with the required inputs and outputs:





Many people have made some elaborate engines, such as GameslayerX2's "Diesel Engine", and Lucas's "Car Engine," but it all boils down to the same thing: They are mainly timer run, so when something goes wrong, it goes very wrong. Others have made extremely complex electronic systems for their engines, but they still use timers to coordinate events. This engine "circuit box" (If you prefer to call it that) only uses a timer for when to repeat the engine again.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Required inputs/outputs, in order of top to bottom on the circuit box:

Starter Spark (INPUT): An input activated by the user, but only once, to start the engine. This is the only port that is user operated.

Cylinder Full Detector (INPUT): An input that that starts the combustion sequences. The sensor is there so that when the fuel in the combustion chamber is at the correct level, fuel will stop being poured in, and the fuel will be burned.

Timer Spark (INPUT): This is user created. When the engine is done on that burn cycle, and there is no fire in the cylinder, the timer (basically a water spark loop) should send a single spark to this input to cycle the engine again.

Combustion Chamber Fuel Release (OUTPUT): This wire should go to an e-wall ONLY. NO PCLN! Why? Because it starts fuel release into the combustion chamber.

Ignition (OUTPUT): This starts the fuel burn. It cause the fuel to burn or explode, depending on the fuel. It only ignites the fuel, so the ignition system to ignite the fuel is of your design. This output only starts that system.

This system has been used many times to great affect, such as:

The Nicoal Starburst:



The Nitroglycerin Engine:


and the DESL Engine:



All of them use a system similar, if not identical, to the system explained here.

I recognize that lots of different engines are good. What I am trying to say is that many make simple electronics way too complex, which is why I developed this. But please, do NOT make a better version. I only did not use WIFI because of issues with people needing/wanting to use their own WIFI channels, and no timer was included either, because it takes engines varying amounts of time to cycle.