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Re: RPM question
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Originally Posted by mattfranklin
Main thing limiting RPM is stroke length.
Piston speed is approximately constant.
Tiny engines go 20k rpm and big ship engines go 50 rpm.
But the piston speed for both is about the same.
There is a chart for that somewhere in the engine text books.
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Piston speed can vary. On any engine, piston speed at idle is different than piston speed at redline. You just want to keep it below the speed of sound.
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