Timeline for Why do most radial engines use an odd number of cylinders?
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| Dec 19, 2021 at 20:17 | comment | added | A. I. Breveleri | +1 Interesting theory -- timing an even-numbered engine as a set of superimposed odd-numbered engines. This would probably be practical for 6, 10, 14, or even 18 cylinders. A 12-cylinder, however, must be timed as four 3-cylinders, which makes the groups of power strokes 4 adjacent cylinders long, with only 3 groups per rotation. This would probably be noticeably rough. - The problem of not enough groups also appears at 20 (four 5-cyl) cylinders, 24 (eight 3-cyl) cylinders, and other impractically large sizes. | |
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| S Dec 17, 2021 at 20:09 | history | answered | Steve Duncan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |