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    Parts For Sale Continental 85 crank, flanged

    What are you asking for the crank? [email protected],
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    Parts For Sale free to good home, c172 wheel pants

    I have a pair of these and am looking for people that have more knowledge in this realm than I do. When position correctly over tire/wheel, there is at least 4.5" of wheel sticking out below the pants. My question: are these effective? is the adaption-installation worth it? Thanks, Larry
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    Parts Wanted Wanted runout O-290 D2 (cheap)

    Dana, Do you plan on using the D2 or are you willing to part with it? Larry
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    Parts Wanted Wanted runout O-290 D2 (cheap)

    Title says it all. Will pick up west of Mississippi.
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    Parts For Sale Warp Drive Prop

    What type of hub - HP ? What is prop bolt pattern - SAE1 or SAE2? I want to use on a Ly O-235, 108 hp. Need SAE2 pattern. Thanks, Larry
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    Wiring in a backup battery

    SHAKING THE BUSH BOSS rv7charlie and all: I'm actually warming up to the idea of a crowbar device-circuit. Two ignition senarios: 1. One mag and one E.I. and a handheld backup navigation device: yes, loss of electrical system not fatal (so long as the battery was not set on fire) but one is...
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    Wiring in a backup battery

    rv7charlie: I'm in a little over my head here, but 1) I have known that the Samurai Denso alternator has an internal regulator for a few decades now. I also know that regulators fail, both external and internal. I'm thinking that a regulator failure is typically not a "short" but more likely...
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    Wiring in a backup battery

    rv7charlie: my error, you said "shorted" and not "shorted to ground." Like the events that lead up to 9/11, it was a failure of imagination - I couldn't imagine the B wire shorting to anything other than ground. And since we are on the subject, wouldn't "ground" be the odds on favorite. The...
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    Wiring in a backup battery

    All those folks with an ammeter installed, what's the most positive amperage that you have noted or noticed on your gauge? What is the scale of your gauge? The 30+30- scale is from the old generator days. My shunt in in the 10G wire that runs from the downstream side of the CDS to the FP-BB...
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    Wiring in a backup battery

    rv7charlie, schematic is on post #5 in page 1. The 2nd battery and the 2nd Home Brew E.I. are not installed at this point. I originally installed the 2nd E.I. setup on the main battery (separate fuse in the FP-BB) but I have some tweaking to do on it. I had a cross country flight from Carson...
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    Wiring in a backup battery

    rv7charlie and Donald: the 30 amp B wire fuse is at the top limit of the fuse panel-bus bar (FP-BB) specs. The fuse panel mfgr established this limitation. Was not sure it would work for me but so far no problems - no blown fuses. The B wire connects to one of the 10 fuseable connections to...
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    Wiring in a backup battery

    All, It is comforting to know that there are many on this forum that know a lot about DC electrical systems: automotive, aircraft, marine, etc. I'm way behind most, if not all, of you. But maybe it's a benign lag. My little EAB aircraft has very simple instrumentation and a very simple E...
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    Wiring in a backup battery

    Thanks Aerowerx, yes the diode is drawn backwards. As stated somewhere early on, having the small aux battery help in the starting of the engine complicates the situation tremendously. One option is to just separate it from the main electrical system - other than the 2nd (redundant) battery...
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    Wiring in a backup battery

    Good points dog - I should up my game on watching the voltage, especially when it doesn't cost much. addaon, incisive thoughts on a 2nd diode. I have drawn in a "lighted toggle switch." While that would add to the pilot workload, it's a 1 second chore per flight (assuming that one is not...
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    Wiring in a backup battery

    Aviators; On my O-235 (Falconar F-12), I've installed a Ford EDIS4 module, a 2nd gen Ford wasted spark coil, trigger wheel, sensor bracket with 3 CPK sensors and, finally, a 3 position rotary switch to go from 0*-25*-33* with the engine running. Of course, the engine is started on the 0* and...
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    Cheap & easy to build, cheap to fly

    From Rutan Quickie - Wikipedia: Rutan was then involved with the design; Sheehan and Jewett suggesting a scaled-down Vari-Eze. After a preliminary pusher canard configuration design (Rutan Model 49) had been discarded, his solution to the design issues of low drag without retractable...
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    Cheap & easy to build, cheap to fly

    Getting back to the original inquiry, my thoughts are somewhat old school but what about a Quickie, designed by Rutan, Jewett and Sheehan. I don't know anything about Austria but it fits the requirements wonderfully otherwise. Instead of the wings being detachable, I think the tail section is...
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    Master Switch - illuminated rocker switch

    Real world update: When connected per the above post, the communication between the two +12V terminals allows some current to flow back to the bus (through the illumination circuit) after the master switch is moved to "off." It's lower voltage and milliamps but, nevertheless, unacceptable...
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    Master Switch - illuminated rocker switch

    Thanks to all for your contributions! The solution turns out to be quite simple (no cutting another hole or enlarging the existing hole in the panel) and Dan was getting close. I spoke with Eaton this morning and the engineer said to just turn the flow around and connect a hot wire to the...
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    Master Switch - illuminated rocker switch

    Thanks guys, I knew (or felt pretty sure) the problem was one of not getting current across the light circuit. Perhaps the smart thing to do is to change out the switch to DPST - it's just a little money and not much effort. That said, what if I just eliminated the load connection/wire (going...
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