Lets see if we can now turn the curse into a blessing... (:-)  Your best hope is that it is a broken connector or wire.   If not,  you could swap primary injector on #1 rotor with secondary on rotor #1.  See if the problem moves with the cutout switches.  If not then test rotor 2 in the same way.  You will see if it is a bad injector and which one.  I hope you only have to buy one new connector or one new injector...

 

Thanks for the good troubleshooting info.  I hadn’t thought beyond the broken connection option yet, so this will make it easy.  Fortunately, though it would be a pain to dig back down to the primary injectors, I have two more just like them, as well as two more used connectors.  I’m sure it’s going to be a wire in the plug though.

 

With that thought in mind, I would offer this piece of advice to anyone who’s installing an EC-2.  If this box has to be placed somewhere hard to reach, leave enough cable slack that you can pull the plug out to where you can work on it.  I made the top skin on the RV-3 fuselage removable with screws, so mine is pretty accessible.  Still, I’m going to wish I had left a loop of cable to let me get the plug in a better place to see, and work on it.    

 

ps.  Our proximity is short lived as we are moving to NC to bring lots of blessings to Ed.  (I hope he doesn't develop and injector problem too!) 

The plane is at Ferguson 82J awaiting flight and phase 1 stuff.  I will be back down there in the next week or so depending on the WX.

 

Sorry to hear you’re leaving.  It’s going to be hard to fly off that 40 hours by long distance commute.  Maybe you can get a ferry permit once you feel the plane would be safe to travel.  Of course the first step it to actually fly it.  The weather has certainly been lousy when you’re in town.  Considering your line of work, I’d have figured you’d get a break  :-)

 

Rusty