I have had excellent results for years with my RO Jett motors with the Thunderbolt RC Long Glow Plug. I have one left !!!. It appears that they are
no longer available. What other reliable glow plugs have you folks been using. This is for RO Jett motors only please.
Anyone using the Merlin 2005 in RO Jett with muffler? I use a Ro Jett 67 RE. I hate to switch brands as the Thunderbolt RC Long plugs have been
excellent. Please this is for RO Jett motors only.
I have only used Merlin (a flight or two), Enya (a flight or two), Thunderbolt R/C (one flying session), and Thunderbolt 4-cycle (1000+). I got a good supply of the Thunderbolt 4cycle/large bore 2-stroke plugs right at the end. So I haven't tried anything else.
I would suggest the Glow Devil #300 to start with, but you are going into unknown territory. As always, with ABC/AAC engines, be *very careful* on the first flight, and in particular, check it out in inside round and inside square loops whenever you try a new plug. If they are going to flame out, that's where it will probably happen.
Otherwise, experiment away - I have had good results on other engines with a lot of different plugs, and chose the Thunderbolt 4-cycle because it appeared to give slightly better power (as first discovered by Ted and David on the PA, after we started using the Thunderbolt R/C at Paul's suggestion (and because they were only 89 cents!)) over the R/C or other plugs. Of course you can tell if it's never going to work by checking for an RPM drop when you remove the battery. The only plugs to *never* use are Rossi, they have been implicated time after time in the flameout-like-you-flipped-a-switch problem dating back to the demise of the Temptation.
Brett