Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #40716
From: Steve Brooks <cozy4pilot@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] EC-2 troubles
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:48:28 -0500
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>

Mark,

That’s one problem that I haven’t had.  I do recall a discussion though because several people flying the “plastic” planes had problems with the data getting corrupted.  I think that I lucked out because I ran all of my wiring down the passenger side wiring channel.  By the time it came to do the controller, the channel was full, so it runs down the pilot’s side pretty much by itself.  The only other thing in the channel other than the EC2 wiring are the headset intercom wires, which are shielded.

 

Steve Brooks

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]On Behalf Of Mark Steitle
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 6:51 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] EC-2 troubles

 

Tracy,

To refresh your memory, I recently installed the solid state staging relay on my 20B Lancair ES.  When doing the install, I didn't reinstall the diode (to ground).  During a short test flight after installing the solid state relay, the map table got corrupted.  I wrote for your advice and you instructed me to connect the diode.  I reinstalled the diode to the staging relay and went for a short 30 minute flight today.  The "A" map table again got corrupted.  Switching to the "B" controller resulted in a smooth running engine.  After landing, I entered the EM-2 tracking mode and it was obvious that the "A" map table was again corrupted.   I have not reloaded the default map, in case you would like to take a picture of the EM-2 display of the map table.

These are the only two instances of this happening that I can recall, both cases happened after I installed the solid state injector staging relay.  Could the relay possibly be related? 

Also, I understand that others with composite a/c have had problems similar to this (sporatic corruption of the MAP table).  Have you been able to determine a common cause?  Any suggestions? 

I am posting this to the fly rotary group in hopes that someone on the list may have already "been there, done that". 

Thanks,
Mark S.



 

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