beltoni
RC Newbie
Glow Plug Nightmares
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Hi there, I have been breaking in my new .18vx engine on my Atomic warhead nitro and decided to get a spare plug. I bought an OS #8 which is a hot plug recomended for general use? Well the problem is only the bottom part of the coil lights up orange in the new os #8 plug! Is this normal because I thought all plugs coils were suposed to light up the whole coil white? The entire HSP plugs coil glows albeit only orange not white. The Hsp Plug works though. I actually did manage to get the OS plug to fire up engine but only after running engine for half a tank of gas with hsp plug first. So engine was already nice and hot when put in the new plug. I searched the web and found that most sites said all the coil should glow on all plugs with out exception while there was one site that claimed that the whole coil must glow in all plugs except the OS#8 Plugs? Which is true?? I tried to return the plug to the shop I purchased it from but they wouldn't take it back. They said OS Plugs are never faulty blah blah blah and that I must be doing somthing wrong. Do I need to get a more powerfull charger for my 1.2 Volt starter? Do I need to charge it longer? ??? Do different plugs require different voltages? I have many questions and none answered. The people at the shop I bought it from said they didn't know if it should light the coil half way or the whole way?. Pretty lame shop. They basicaly said it was non returnable without any good explanation. only saying that it is like a light bulb and expendible. Well $13.30 may be expendible for them but it isn't for me. What is the truth about the #8 OS glow Plugs????
Is this Shop taking the piss?
Thanks for any enlightenment. Beltoni
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Hi there, I have been breaking in my new .18vx engine on my Atomic warhead nitro and decided to get a spare plug. I bought an OS #8 which is a hot plug recomended for general use? Well the problem is only the bottom part of the coil lights up orange in the new os #8 plug! Is this normal because I thought all plugs coils were suposed to light up the whole coil white? The entire HSP plugs coil glows albeit only orange not white. The Hsp Plug works though. I actually did manage to get the OS plug to fire up engine but only after running engine for half a tank of gas with hsp plug first. So engine was already nice and hot when put in the new plug. I searched the web and found that most sites said all the coil should glow on all plugs with out exception while there was one site that claimed that the whole coil must glow in all plugs except the OS#8 Plugs? Which is true?? I tried to return the plug to the shop I purchased it from but they wouldn't take it back. They said OS Plugs are never faulty blah blah blah and that I must be doing somthing wrong. Do I need to get a more powerfull charger for my 1.2 Volt starter? Do I need to charge it longer? ??? Do different plugs require different voltages? I have many questions and none answered. The people at the shop I bought it from said they didn't know if it should light the coil half way or the whole way?. Pretty lame shop. They basicaly said it was non returnable without any good explanation. only saying that it is like a light bulb and expendible. Well $13.30 may be expendible for them but it isn't for me. What is the truth about the #8 OS glow Plugs????
Is this Shop taking the piss?
Thanks for any enlightenment. Beltoni