STOP WASTING FUEL! Automatic Stop RC Fuel Station

STOP WASTING FUEL! Automatic Stop RC Fuel Station

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Wasting fuel is a pain, but perfectly filling a fuel bag with the same amount of fuel manually is impossible. Having tested the new AutoFill fuel station from Vspeak I just had to show how cool the system is, filling based on pressure with auto cut off once the set pressure is reached, and its even easy to use!

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this is the brand new and much improved fuel station from vpeak their autofill system that’s right it’s automatic let’s take a look it’s worth pointing out that there are actually two versions of the exact same system technologically they’re the same however the casing does vary so if you’re in the US and you’re using something like the VP racing system with the big wide neck you would order the system for the big wide neck with a big hole whereas if you’re in Spain or Europe or anywhere with the smaller type of can well you’d use the one with the smaller hole just so everything fits on perfectly both include the same usamade grer pump installation is super simple in either case we just take the lid off place it over the neck and put the screw back on now in the case of our standard European style all our connections are in the lid itself whereas in our VP racing cam as they have a threaded insert in the top the lid itself is our standard and then we have our connections which screw into the lid itself like so the case cleverly has cutouts on the sides which allow us to wrap some velcro around the can if we chose to do so and then it gives us a couple of options for our battery so we can either wrap some more velcro around the battery or if we choose to use a power boox battery like in this one it comes with holes precut so we can attach our support what makes this system so exciting though is the fact that it will actually fill your fuel tank and then stop once it’s full completely on its own without the need for a load of programming or any manual input at the end to stop refueling and it works both with rigid fuel tanks and with fuel bags and it’s even us compliant with current regulations which require pressure sensing inside which is how it does all of that magic let’s start off by being impatient we don’t want to learn the system we just want to go fly we want to get fuel from our Bowser into our fuel tank well thankfully you don’t really need to get into the nitty-gritty of how this works or why it just works right out the box first of all we’ve got our screen with four buttons up and down which is self-explanatory a tick button which is a sort of an okay or if held down takes us back a page and then we’ve got two cogs here which turn the system on bring it out of sleep mode and they also start pumping it will stop pumping on its own or if you hold it down it will drain the tank as well so let’s start by turning it on we get our vspe logo on the screen and it tells us our battery voltage how long before it goes back to sleep and which model we’re in now yes you can set up a model for each jet that you’ve got or each model that you’ve got each with their own very specific parameters however that is very much not necessary all you really need is two models one for a bag and one for a rigid tank as long as you select the right one for your model that’s all you need in 99% of cases unless you really want to get into changing parameters almost for the sake of it inside model one we have three parameters we have model select self-explanatory model parameters and system settings now we’re already in model one that’s fine we just want to go and make sure that it is set for a fuel bag as opposed to a fuel tank so in model parameters OKAY model name we’re not interested in changing that yet we’ll have a look at that in a moment in the video and point number two is fuel tank type fuel bag so if it wasn’t a fuel bag we could just change that to fuel bottle two fuel bottles but in this case as it is a bag we’ll just take it back to fuel bag accept that we can now go back and back again to our main home screen now that we know it’s set for a bag we can just tell it to fill now it will start by pulling out air up to a predefined time but don’t worry if it doesn’t get all the air out as it hasn’t yet now it starts filling up there’s a small delay so it can calibrate the pressure that it takes to reach the bag depending on your system length of tubes diameters of tubes Etc and then once that has elapsed it now starts filling up and will continue to do so until it reaches the predefined pressure so we can see the pressure growing we’ve still got quite a bit of air in here but not a problem it’s detected the maximum pressure and it now pulls out all that air until it detects that nothing but clear fuel is coming back it then takes out any Bubbles and then puts clear fuel back in following the same procedure as before so calibrating for the length of tube and the pressure buildup and then once that’s done it’ll continue filling until it reaches that desired pressure so in our case right out the box that’s 40 miar so as soon as the tank reaches 40 we’re going to see it stops it pulls a little bit back just to remove excess pressure from the bag and then we get a nice picture of an airplane telling us that we’re good to go fly and we have a perfectly filled bag with really no manual input with no air left inside perfect and we can can follow the same impatient principle for rigid fuel tanks as well basically all we need to do here just like before is make sure that our system is set for a rigid tank this time as opposed to a fuel bag so again in model parameters fuel tank type and we can just change that to a fuel bottle and we’d be pretty much ready to go there is one difference here though compared to a fuel bag fuel bags by their nature build in pressure the more fuel and or air is inside of them which is what this can read the pressure now rigid fuel tanks don’t quite work the same as obviously they have a breather tube which allows some degree of the pressure to escape that’s why we need one of these reductor hoses we can just connect that to our breather and this just has a little nipple in here which reduces how much fuel or air can get through now we can either leave this off or we can connect it back into our fuel Bowser after all we want to be environmentally friendly so as soon as we start filling up it’ll fill as before and when it reaches that restriction well it knows that it’s full just like with the fuel bag let’s check it out now this time it can go straight in just like before it’s going to calibrate how much pressure it takes due to the system itself so all the tubes the clunk the tank itself and then it continues filling measuring the relative pressure compared to that base level now as soon as our fuel tank fills up it’s about halfway there now once it fills all the way and the fuel reaches this reduction that pressure is going to Skyrock it it knows it’s full and we’re done we can see it’s just about there now any second now F’s going to come out of here and we can see the pressure grow and it’s full it then pulls back just a little bit to prevent any dribbling and once again we’ve got our airplane telling us that we’re good to go fly away easy and for either type of fuel tank we can just empty it by holding it [Applause] [Music] down and once again as soon as it’s empty it stops now now as promised let’s have a look at all the different parameters that are in here if for any reason you did want to have a specific configuration for one or all of your models as opposed to just having one setting for fuel bags and one setting for fuel tanks so let’s start off at the Top Model select well quite self-explanatory you can have up to 20 models in here each can have their own different name and settings personally I can’t see the need for having more than just a bag in a tank so that’s what I’m going to be creating so model one for me will be a bag and model two will be a rigid tank if we want it to change we just select it and go up or down accordingly then we can go back by holding it down model parameters now model name let’s change it from model one to fuel bag so we just tick one fuel bag and just take that to the end and we’re done so I’m now going to use model number one as fuel bag for all models with a fuel bag in them on to point number two which is the fuel tank type now here we can choose between our fuel bag which is already accurate for me or we can change as before to a fuel bottle so a rigid tank or two fuel bottles now the reason why it differentiates here is that if you have two fuel tanks in a row basically there’s a difference in pressure between filling the first one and filling the second one and to avoid false readings what it does is when it fills the first one it knows that suddenly that change of pressure isn’t because the whole tank is full it’s because the first tank is full it will then start filling the second tank and once that one is full and the pressure changes again it knows that that second change of pressure pressure is because the full entire tank is full and it can now stop filling number three tank hose diameter now here we can choose between whether we’re using 6 mm hose or 4 mm hose now the only difference here really is as far as calculating how much fuel has been put in or been taken out the whole pressure system works regardless of whether we have the right setting here or not number four short empty and we have a time in seconds this is the last step that the system does with a fuel bag it basically just removes a little bit of fuel in this case 4 seconds worth so that once you remove or disconnect your filling line it’s not going to squirt absolutely everywhere it also helps CU it just removes a little bit of pressure from the bag so it’s not sitting there really really Tau now we can change this to any time we want however 4 seconds seems to work point five maximum emptying this just means that if you set it to empty the fuel bag or fuel tank the maximum time it’s going to sit there running is for 600 seconds as standard so 10 minutes but again you can change that up or down however you wish point six flow emptying this one isn’t actually so much about how quickly we get fuel out of our tank but controlling and knowing how much fuel we are taking out the tank at any point in time calibrating it basically so what we would do here to make sure that our calibration is correct so it shows us exactly how much fuel we’ve removed accurately we would actually go to the previous Point Max emptying and we would reduce that down to 60 seconds then we would empty the fuel bag or fuel tank into an external jug or measuring device and press empty basically we’re then going to have 60 seconds exactly put into that measuring jug and the amount in that measuring you’ve got it that is the amount that we need to put in here based off of that all readings thereafter will be accurate 7 8 and 10 all kind of work together and they are actually relatively important so we’ll go over those in a moment but for now we’ll skip ahead to Point N Point N is delay control this is just how long we give our pump and autofill system to stabilize before it starts taking pressure readings so as standard it comes set to 10 seconds just so it can figure out what the pressure is of the tank the tubes the lines the clunk and everything else before we start trying to detect when it increases in pressure in order to stop automatically and on to number 10 we have our Delta pressure so basically this is once the system has stabilized from the previous Point once it goes up by this amount of milar it’s going to stop it’s going to cut off because it knows that we’ve filled our tank because it’s reached that maximum pressure now we skipped 78 and we said 10 is important because they work together and that’s right seven is the fill power this isn’t actually how quickly we’re going to fill our tank this is a value that we need to make sure that the pressure that we’re putting into the tank so the speed of the pump the pressure is within a certain limit the reason for that is because if it’s way above that limit or way below that limit the readings of those 40 Ms up are not going to be accurate so what we do is first of all we go back to 10 Delta pressure and we increase that quite a lot we would then go back to 7 fill power we have 55% pump as standard and we would go back and basically start filling our bag in the top corner of the pump it’s going to read out the global pressure not the stabilized pressure but the global pressure we need to make sure that’s between 200 and 400 mbars if it isn’t we need to increase or decrease that 7 from 55% to 60 65 or 50 so that that is within that range once we can confirm that our pressure is within that 2 to 400 m range we can then go down to our pump pressure and program into it what our pump pressure is so as we’ve just seen in our little example our pressure was 390 so we want to have this set to exactly that basically this is the base reading that our pump is going to use so it knows that normal pressure is 390 when it reaches half of that pressure it knows that it’s no longer socking air and it’s socking Fuel and and then once it’s stabilized it will then just go back to making our usual readings of 40 Ms now it is important to remember once we’ve finished doing this to go back to that Delta and reduce the pressure needed to stop the cut off back down to the standard 40 continuing on with the menu 11 is the maximum fill time 600 seconds so if the bank or tank isn’t full after 10 minutes it will cut off automatically 12 is bubble save so as we saw when filling the bag one of the last steps it does is pull out any leftover small bubbles now how long it does that for is based on this time here as standard comes set to 10 seconds and those are all the model parameters for filling fuel bags the parameters for filling rigid tanks work in the same way although there are a couple of those missing from the menu as they aren’t necessary for rigid tanks such as the bubble Save which obviously in an open a tank isn’t an issue on the other hand if we’ve set it to fill two rigid fuel tanks well there are going to be a couple of extra menu items basically duplicated menu items that we had before which we now have twice one for the first tank and one for the second tank however they work in exactly the same way so as you can see we now have fill power to and Delta pressure to both of those applying to the second fuel tank and finally in system settings we have a low battery voltage cut off how long before it goes back into sleep mode what pressure units we want to read out be that millibars or PSI an empty canister option is available however it comes set to default off basically because if you have contaminants in your fuel it can give you an erroneous reading and if you really make a mess of it you have a reset option which will reset all the parameters in the autofill and there you have it the vpeak autofill fuel system that really does live up to the name as it automatically fills or more to the point automatically stops filling as soon as you have a perfect tank of gas I know this one is going to be filling a lot of jets in the future all of these all of those and everything that has a fuel tank in it for me in the future future so make sure to check out the VP website we’ll leave a link down below I hope you’ve enjoyed the video If You did leave us a like subscribe if you aren’t already and I’ll see you all in the next one where if it’s flying it’ll have been filled by this
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