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From: "DaveLeonard" <daveleonard@cox.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] alternator connections
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:09:37 -0700
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Paul, I also have the EXP BUSS and an engine monitor that alerts me when the
voltage drops.  I don't have a light and don't seem to need one.  Alternator
turns on and off nicely with the switch on the exp buss after I made the
modifications to the alternator that Ed recommends.  Lets see if I can find
those....  nope that must have been from before the last computer crash.
Maybe Ed still has it.

Dave Leonard


>
>
> Hi, fellow rotary enthusiasts.....I know this has been discussed
> before, but
> I wasn't smart enough to save the critical information.  I have the stock
> alternator installed, and I have one wire (2/0 gage) going from the
> alternator to the battery (for charging), and the field is excited via a
> toggle switch on my EXP buss that turns the alternator on by supplying 12
> volts to it on one of the small wires on the alternator.  The
> third wire is
> for the idiot light.  If I recall correctly, this needs to be hooked up to
> an idiot light for the alternator to work properly?
>       I was hoping not to have to go to through the efforts of running a
> wire all the way up to my instrument panel. (I have an engine monitor that
> will tell me if the voltage falls below any preset value), so I
> was thinking
> maybe I could just install a very short wire and put a light or ? just
> inside of the firewall. (a pusher configuration).  I'm assuming I can just
> run this wire to a small light bulb socket, and connect the other
> wire that
> comes out of the light bulb socket directly to ground?  Of
> course, if anyone
> else has found any substitutions for the light, for instance an
> LED or ?  I
> would sure appreciate that info.   Thanks in advance for your
> replies.  Paul
> Conner, 13b powered SQ2000 canard.
>
>
>
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