X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.73] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.4) with ESMTP id 985685 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sun, 05 Jun 2005 21:08:04 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.152.59.73; envelope-from=ceengland@bellsouth.net Received: from ibm69aec.bellsouth.net ([209.214.146.82]) by imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20050606010720.TDV22513.imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm69aec.bellsouth.net> for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 21:07:20 -0400 Received: from [209.214.146.82] by ibm69aec.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20050606010719.RGUC13045.ibm69aec.bellsouth.net@[209.214.146.82]> for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 21:07:19 -0400 Message-ID: <42A3A1C5.5040505@bellsouth.net> Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 20:07:17 -0500 From: Charlie England User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: EC2 problems - solved (2nd reply) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Slade wrote: >>Also, either the shell of the connector on the cable or the panel in >>which the chassis side connector is mounted can prevent full seating of >>the connector. >> >> >Bingo! Charlie wins the prize....a one hour ride in my Cozy. >Second prize... a two hour ride :) >John > One more point I forgot, for you guys new to sub-d connectors: if you don't fully engage the locking mechanism (screws, latch, whatever) the locking mechanism itself can prevent full seating of the connector. John, If possible, please supply details on connector shell brand & style, where the interference was located, etc. Tracy might be able to alter the cutout in the chassis or specify a known-good shell that won't cause the problem you experienced. This is a much more common problem than one might think. Charlie