I'm with you Bill,
Pretty much plug and play for me (tuning excluded). My only real hickup was the fact the I miswired the coils and they were firing in the wrong order. Video on my website of my attempted first start.
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Mike Wills <rv-4mike@cox.net> wrote:
Bill,
Good to see that not everyone has had to deal with the gremlins. It indicates light at the end of the tunnel. Another setback for me this weekend, but hopefully will figure it out sooner or later and finally get back to flight test.
BTW, if you have RD-1 #1, I guess that means I have RD-1 #0? Mine was the prototype Tracy flew after removing the Ross. I think he said it had around 160 hours on it when he swapped it for a production RD-1A, but dont remember the details. Man that was a long time ago.
Mike Wills
RV-4 N144MW
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Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 6:11 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: More progress, more questions....
I have been watching all this EC2 problem solving going on for some time now. Maybe I was just lucky, but I certainly don't remember having near the problems that seem to be plaguing builders now. Or is it just that those who don't have problems don't post?
For me, it wasn't quite plug and play, but it was darn close. Following the manual exactly is almost mandatory. I had to read and re-read sections until it became clear in my mind what was going to happen. Generally, if you call Tracy, he will point out some sentence in the manual that you have glossed over.
Sorry if this looks like a rant, but just wanted to point out that not everyone has problems with the EC2.
Bill Eslick
610 hours 13B NA RD-1(#1) EC-2
As has been pointed out, the EC2 is not a plug and play device and does take some degree of ghostbusters poltergeist work to chase the gremlins down.
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