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My plane has the PPAvionics controller with Facet pumps and it works very well. It will not work on the latest edition of Facet pumps. That is why they don't make them anymore. It is not an automatic transfer system. It is a controller that senses when the wing tanks are empty during transfer and automatically shuts the pumps off.

For me, I prefer to manually transfer fuel from wing tanks to header tank, so I know how much is in the wing tanks. I need something to do while flying anyway. And I prefer the header tank to be no more than 50% full for landing when solo for CG purposes.

Gary Edwards

LNC2

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From: Terrence O'Neill

To: lml@lancaironline.net

Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:08 PM

Subject: [LML] Re: Automatic header tank feeder

I had one in my 235/320 and the optical sensors didn't work, nor did the control unit... and they had no substitute or repairs available. I finally took it out in put toggle switched in for each Facet transfer pump to the header, and in the header put in a float switch that woujld interrupt the Facets when the fuel level in the header was to the shutoff level desired. Works fine.
Terrence

L235/320 N211AL

On Jan 22, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Novelli wrote:

Try http://www.pillarpointelectronics.com/history.html . They were Pillar Point Avionics. As PPAv they produced a device that do what you want but I think they discontinued it. I have one in my 320 and works fine.

Sílvio Novelli

Lancair 320 - PP-XSN

+55 (14) 3841-2337

From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Tom Anderson
Sent: quinta-feira, 21 de janeiro de 2010 19:53
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Automatic header tank feeder

My 360 is getting ready for some repairs that includes fixing defective fuel gauges and recalibrating my totalizer. While I’m at it, I’d like to add a switching device that would read the header tank level and automatically activate the fuel transfer pumps when the header tank level drops below, say, 4 gallons and then shuts it off at a header tank reading of about 9 gallons. I saw a 2 ¼” display for such a unit on a friend’s Lancair, but he couldn’t recall where he got if from and doubted they were still available. Does anyone know if they are or what other options might be available? Thanks for any thoughts on this.

Tom, N360DB