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I have a "abnormal voltage" light right in front of
my eyeballs on the instrument panel that lights up when Under or Over voltage
conditions exists. Also, I have a voltmeter that is part of my eyeball
scan. Since I normally log engine and flight parameters every 15 minutes
during flight including my volt meter, I hope I would notice such an
happening before I took off or had flow more than 15 minutes. Some
circuit breakers don't give you a good visual indication when they have
popped. I have the kind that stick out approx. 1/2 " when they pop with
contrasting white on black - will generally catch your
eyeball scan.
The horn sounds like a good idea
Glad the Subie pilot was uninjured, a plane can be
fixed.
Ed
Anderson
RV-6A N494BW Rotary Powered
Matthews, NC
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 2:07 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Subaru Cozy has
an eventful first flight.
after repeatedly leaving the master
switch on, I wired a horn to the alt light.. this has helped me remember
to shut it off. I also wired a switch into the horn so I can turn the
master swt. on "in peace" to say listen to awos or program the gps before
starting the plane, so there still exists a failure mode, but I have found it
is much better now. breaking the routine seems to be the key for
detecting mistakes. try giving some yakky kid (or cute coed) a ride
sometime and see what you forget to do!
........ might be some lessons to be learned
for people like me who are using single alternator, dual
barrety, electronic ignition systems. It seems he left his
master on overnight.
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