From: "R. Dan Ribb" <dribb@mediaone.net>
To: <lancair.list@olsusa.com>
Subject: RE: IO550 versus the IO550 FADEC
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 13:43:04 -0800
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>>Count the number of sensors that have to be functional before the aircraft
can legally  dispatch. Then think back to how often one of your similar
sensors has been flakey.<<

Oh yes, I agree.  That is why I said the "newness" may scare some of us off
for awhile.  Rick Schrameck and I were discussing off-line that the
software/computer "brains" are probably not a problem but the mechanical
connections of the electrical sensors can be a real issue.  I helped a
friend install, wire and debug a VM1000 (actually we still debug it now and
then).  It is the older style VM unit with the small terminal strips.  It
has been problematic - more that I care to deal with.  Keeping those
mechanical connections of electrical conductors in hostile, high vibration
environments seems to be a challenge to a lot of homebuilders.  Of course,
when done right they can be pretty reliable.

  .. Dan ..

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