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I hope you are right, Mike. But, after
several hours of running with a new battery, I would think all the heavy
charging would have been accomplished early in the flight. I did note that
the voltage was reading closer to 13.8 or 14 volts while I normally see around
14.8 volts. In any case, once I find out what the cause was, I will post it to the list.
ED
Ed Anderson
RV-6A N494BW Rotary Powered
Matthews, NC
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:09
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Back from Sun
& Fun
Have you considered that the alternator was just working
overtime doing double duty. Running the plane and charging the
battery. You mentioned you had drained the battery over
night.
Mike McGee, RV-4 N996RV, O320-E2G, Hillsboro, OR
13B in
gestation mode
At 18:04 2004-04-20, you wrote:
Could be
a bad breaker, Rusty. But since those are fairly simple devices, I
wouldn't expect it to reset if busted. I will report what I find as
always - busted alternator OR busted circuit breaker
{:>)
Ed Anderson
RV-6A N494BW Rotary
Powered
Matthews, NC
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: Russell Duffy
- To: Rotary motors in
aircraft
- Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 7:13 PM
- Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Back from Sun & Fun
- Adding to the fuse vs Circuit break
debate. I had my alternator field coil circuit breaker pop three
times during the flight home. I reset it and it generally ran
another 1 1/2 hours before popping again. Don't know what the
problem is until I dig into it, but it kelp producing 14 volts while it
ran so was plenty good to get me home. Could not have reset a fuse,
so while I do use fuses or non flight critical items (such as instruments)
all my flight critical systems are with circuit breakers.
- Can't wait to hear what you
find. Maybe a bad breaker, which will certainly add to the fuse vs
breaker debate, but not in the way you expected :-)
- Cheers,
- Rusty (my brain is a fuse)
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