Paramotor Fun
This is just a bunch of random stuff associated with my paramotor:
I did not built it, I just bought it, and that in itself is a bit unusual! My paramotor frame is a Limitless (Spain), with a Dudek Powersport Light harness (Poland), a Vittorazi 185 Plus engine (Italy), a Helix 130 propeller (Germany), the wing is an Ozone Roadrunner 3 wing (UK / Vietnam), and the reserve parachute is a Niviuk Octagon 2 (France / Vietnam). Unfortunately nothing from the US, unless you count the import fees, reselling markup, shipping costs, and a few stickers.
First Photo
2024 October
It is always fun to take pictures while doing things. But, holy cow, what a first major step it was to pull out my phone, not drop it, take a picture, not crash, put my phone away, and not drop it. The following boring shot is my first picture.
Success!
Phone Mount
To mount a phone on my paramotor, I bought a Quad Lock phone case, handlebar mount, the knuckle adapter, and the vibration dampener.
As a backup, a lanyard loop was stuck in the case (sold separately). This item provide a little hoop sticking out of the charging port.
Then I fabricated and bolted a boss onto the end of the left frame arm.
This boss is sized the same a handlebar tube that a mount would otherwise use. The dimensions of this boss is 30 mm in diameter, 29 mm in length, with a 6 mm through hole.
The through hole matches the attachment bolt, which matches an existing hole on the frame arm... 6 mm.
The overall length is determined by the grip length of the attachment bolt: Starting with a M6x50 bolt, subtracting the paramotor swing arm thickness of 12 mm and the washers and bolt thickness of 9 mm, leaves 29 mm. Now this leaves no threads extending out past the bolt, and this is bad practice by aviation standards, but to me it is one less thing for stuff to catch on. And, this length provides just enough boss for the phone mount width (otherwise I would select a different bolt length).
Spark Plug
When tuned correctly the plug should be brown. The tang is brown, but it seems a little black at the threads. It was running just a little rich, but this was also during the initial engine break-in. I will surely tune it a bit leaner.
