Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #23088
From: John Slade <sladerj@bellsouth.net>
Subject: EC2 problems - solved
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:40:43 -0400
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Tracy and others.
Following more than 12 months of battling with EC2 issues I'm pretty sure it's Eureka day!
After rewiring and testing for almost 4 weeks I plugged the EC2 in last night, and got exactly the same symptoms as before. NOP flashing indicating no communication. I took the EC2 to Buly's plane and tried it in his installation. Same NOP, so I was thinking I'd fried it again. Before sending it back yet again I decided to install it my plane one more time and see if there was a spark.
 
To my amazement it worked. No NOP, and I could bring up the EC2 data. The only thing that changed overnight was that I moved the cable to unplug it. I climbed in the back and found that I could make the NOP flash, or stop flashing, by moving the cable. I haven't taken the connector apart yet, but I'm expecting to find a broken wire inside the insulation, probably near a solder joint at the pin. Whenever I bent the connector outward for testing it made contact. When I bent it back to plug it in, contact was lost.
 
Bingo!
John
 
Just guessing, but maybe the new EC2 can't communicate with a pre-autotune EM2 like Buly's. ???
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