X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [64.129.170.194] (HELO VIRCOM1.fcdata.private) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4c3j) with ESMTP id 4962860 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:47:23 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.129.170.194; envelope-from=cbarber@texasattorney.net Received: from FCD-MAIL06.FCDATA.PRIVATE ([fe80::697f:d6aa:b87:78d8]) by FCD-MAIL05.FCDATA.PRIVATE ([fe80::809d:a06e:5913:452e%15]) with mapi id 14.01.0270.001; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:41:58 -0500 From: Chris Barber To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Can you say "Bad wiring"? Thread-Topic: [FlyRotary] Can you say "Bad wiring"? Thread-Index: AQHMB3pSSeLXTgaAkUGwuo37bY4zXZR28HrM Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:46:10 +0000 Message-ID: <2D41F9BF3B5F9842B164AF93214F3D3065A6A5CD@FCD-MAIL06.FCDATA.PRIVATE> References: In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [166.139.76.11] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_2D41F9BF3B5F9842B164AF93214F3D3065A6A5CDFCDMAIL06FCDATA_" MIME-Version: 1.0 --_000_2D41F9BF3B5F9842B164AF93214F3D3065A6A5CDFCDMAIL06FCDATA_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Really!? Wow, thanks Ed, I do feel MUCH better about my amateur skills. As they say, professionals built the Titanic; Amateurs built the Ark....I'm= just sayin' Chris ________________________________ From: Rotary motors in aircraft [flyrotary@lancaironline.net] on behalf of = Ed Anderson [eanderson@carolina.rr.com] Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 4:08 PM To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: [FlyRotary] Can you say "Bad wiring"? I have a customer that has two of my E/PMag electronic ignition monitors (= Electronic Ignition Commander- EIC). He never installed the first one befo= re he purchased the second one (two aircraft) - love that kind of customer= . But, he was having a fit getting my EIC unit to communciate over the Rs2= 32 ports with these electronic ignition units. Not being the electronics type, he had hired a technician to wire up a plu= g an harness for him. After several days in which we found and solved othe= r wiring issues, the customer found the pins to one plug as shown in the p= hoto. It was naturally shorting out the serial comm when the excess wire p= oking out of the pins touched. I would say he should find another technici= an {:>) But, thought I would show the group the pins of this poorly wired plugs (ca= n you say "electrical short"?) - so you can feel even prouder of your "amat= eur" skills {:>) Ed Edward L. Anderson Anderson Electronic Enterprises LLC 305 Reefton Road Weddington, NC 28104 http://www.andersonee.com http://www.eicommander.com Your message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachment= s: ECI-feilen Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent send= ing or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail secu= rity settings to determine how attachments are handled. --_000_2D41F9BF3B5F9842B164AF93214F3D3065A6A5CDFCDMAIL06FCDATA_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Really!?  Wow, thanks Ed, I do feel MUCH better about my amate= ur skills.

 

As they say, professionals built the Titanic; Amateurs built the Ark....I'm just sayin'

 

Chris

From: Rotary motors in aircraft [flyrotary= @lancaironline.net] on behalf of Ed Anderson [eanderson@carolina.rr.com] Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 4:08 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Can you say "Bad wiring"?

I have a customer  that has two of my E/PMag= electronic ignition monitors (Electronic Ignition Commander- EIC).  He never installed the first one before he purchased the se= cond one (two aircraft)  - love that kind of customer.  But, he was having a fit getting my EIC unit to communciat= e over the Rs232 ports with these electronic ignition units.
 
Not being the electronics type, he had  hire= d a technician to wire up a plug an harness for him.  After several da= ys in which we found and solved other wiring issues, the customer  fou= nd the pins to one plug as shown in the photo.  It was naturally shorting out the serial comm when the excess wire poking out= of the pins touched.  I would say he should find another technician {= :>)
 
But, thought I would = show the group the pins of this poorly wired plugs (can you say "elect= rical short"?) - so you can feel even prouder of your "amate= ur" skills {:>)
 
 
Ed
 
Edward L. Anderson
Anderson Electronic Enterprises LLC
305 Reefton Road
Weddington, NC 28104
http://www.andersonee.com
http://www.eicommander.com
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