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1. 09:13 AM - Re: Starter Solenoid behavior with low Battery (racerjerry)
2. 09:46 AM - Re: Connector kit for transponder Narco AT 50 (DANIEL PELLETIER)
3. 11:37 AM - Re: Starter Solenoid behavior with low Battery (Robert L. Nuckolls, III)
4. 12:14 PM - Re: Re: Starter Solenoid behavior with low Battery (Robert L. Nuckolls, III)
5. 01:46 PM - Re: Connector kit for transponder Narco AT 50 (Gordon Parker)
6. 03:25 PM - Re: Starter Solenoid behavior with low Battery (John Morgensen)
7. 03:50 PM - Flexible Wire for Pull Out Fuse Tray? (Valin & Allyson Thorn)
8. 05:48 PM - Re: Starter Solenoid behavior with low Battery (John Morgensen)
9. 07:09 PM - Re: Starter Solenoid behavior with low Battery (Radioflyer)
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Subject: | Re: Starter Solenoid behavior with low Battery |
Cessna Pilots Association (CPA) has recently uncovered a common error where starter
contactors are sometimes installed upside down and where the weight of the
plunger is working against plunger return spring. Contactors should always
be installed with the case swaged lip facing DOWN. Terminal Studs should be nearer
the bottom of the contactor, rather than the top. Unfortunately, some new
contactors are appearing with labels inverted, which adds to the problem.
Even with the case lip facing down, CPA suggests adding sealant around the case
perimeter at the lip to keep moisture out.
Ref: CPA Magazine, April 2015, p.47
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Jerry King
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Subject: | Re: Connector kit for transponder Narco AT 50 |
Thanks !
Envoy de mon iPad
> Le 2015-04-27 21:41, Chuck Birdsall <cbirdsall6@cox.net> a crit :
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> You might give lane-pilot.com a try.
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> He doesn't list the connecter online but if you send him a note he may have a
serviceable used one. He does carry the pins.
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> Chuck
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> On Apr 27, 2015, at 20:14, DANIEL PELLETIER <pelletie1959@me.com> wrote:
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> I'm looking for the 18 pins connector And Molex terminals and I don't find any
place to buy it.
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> A suggestion maybe.
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> Daniel Pelletier
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Subject: | Re: Starter Solenoid behavior with low Battery |
At 19:26 2015-04-27, you wrote:
Recently my battery fell below 11 volts and so it could not provide
enough power to completely turn over my engine. What surprised me
more than the low battery was that after switching off my master and
then switching it back on again, the starter attempted to turn the
engine. Wow, the master isn't supposed to control the starter solenoid!
After charging the battery, the master and starter switches returned
to normal operation and the engine started perfectly many times. All
was good and I eventually figured out why my battery discharged.
However, that still left me wondering how the master switch could
possibly activate the starter solenoid without my pushing the start
switch. My theory is that the low voltage only partially (weekly)
engaged the starter solenoid spring and therefore the spring didn't
exert full force to open the solenoid after it was de-energized. I'm
not yet ready to conclude that the starter solenoid is actually
defective. Anybody also experienced this?
Millions of times over the history of vehicular DC
power systems not the least of which are airplanes.
Contactors will perform as advertised
only if coil currents are maintained at or above
minimums required for that performance.
With a depleted battery, the voltage is low to
begin with . . . the internal resistance is also
high . . . meaning that the voltage drops still
lower when even moderately loaded.
This condition increases the probability of
starter contactor STICKING by several orders
of magnitude.
Contactos all have one characteristic in common,
they BOUNCE. Some worse than others but none are
zero. The designs that come very close to zero
are those specifically designed for starter control
service. Very light moving contacts. Lots of closure
pressure. Small contact area.
Emacs!
These contacts have hundreds of start cycles on them with
what was probably a healthy battery. Drop the battery
to 10% capacity . . . the contactor will close but it's
going to burn on each bounce and perhaps stick.
If battery voltage is not 12.5 volts or more with
the master switch just closed, be cognizant of the
risk for contactor sticking that goes up exponentially
as battery condition goes lower.
Your starter contactor is probably fine but suffered
an unrealistic expectations event.
Bob . . .
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Subject: | Re: Starter Solenoid behavior with low Battery |
At 11:11 2015-04-28, you wrote:
Cessna Pilots Association (CPA) has recently uncovered a common error
where starter contactors are sometimes installed upside down and
where the weight of the plunger is working against plunger return
spring. Contactors should always be installed with the case swaged
lip facing DOWN. Terminal Studs should be nearer the bottom of the
contactor, rather than the top. Unfortunately, some new contactors
are appearing with labels inverted, which adds to the problem.
Even with the case lip facing down, CPA suggests adding sealant
around the case perimeter at the lip to keep moisture out.
Ref: CPA Magazine, April 2015, p.47
Good grief . . . is that canard still circulating?
That was investigated several times at Cessna by
teams that never seemed to know what the other
teams had discovered . . . with no foundation
whatsoever laid for the assertions in the CPA
article.
First, GRAVITY has nothing to do with the
performance of ANY relay or contactor I've ever
encountered with ONE exception. Back in my
railroading days, a signals guy I met showed
me some antique signal relays he had collected
over the years. Railroad signal equipment remote
from AC mains was battery powered. Battery capacity
was sufficient for months of operation between
charges . . . but signal crews would change out
or recharge batteries at conservative intervals.
Even so, railroad signals designers had the
art of FMEA down decades before anybody bolted
a battery to an airplane. Did you know that crossing
gates are HELD UP with power? Not much . . . but
they're carefully overbalanced such that loss of
power drops the gate. Some relays were built without
springs and depended on gravity for motion in the
de-energized state. This simplified design by eliminating
springs.
The so called intermittent duty, whisky barrel
contactors . . .
Emacs!
were never designed for starter motor service. Power
winch, hydraulic lift gates, etc, yes. But starter
motors . . . not so much. The problem got worse when
the TC guys starting bolding PM motor starters to
their products. Starter inrush currents went up
and the massive, copper ring that served as movable
contact
Emacs!
is bouncy to the extreme.
There WERE some orientation issues with these contactors
but it had nothing to do with gravity.
When Cessna went to the floating cowl way back when, rain
running down the firewall of a sun-soaked airplane sometimes
splashed a contactor body which cooled and sucked in moisture
under the crimped-but-not-sealed closure cap. Moisture
sucked in as liquid had to escape as a gas during atmospheric
variations in pressure. Needless to say, the humidity inside
the contactor was 100% and guess what?
Emacs!
Things got kind of cruddy inside . . .
Emacs!
There was a ABORTIVE fix tried wherein all contactors
were 'sealed' around the terminals and the crimped
cap. The results were predictable. Failure rates went
down slightly but since the sealing was not hermetic,
liquid was still sucked in and vapor exchange went
down further.
The most effective FIX was to mount the contactor cap-down
and drill a tiny 'drain hole' in the center of the
cap. Actually, the hole served both as a vent to
reduce that sucking tendencies as well as
a more reliable exit strategy for any liquid
that would pool there.
Bottom line is that the whisky barrel contactor
has always been a poor performer as a starter
contactor 'Better gravity' won't help and
uckum-yucky over the openings is useless.
The car companies figured that out decades ago.
Bob . . .
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Subject: | Re: Connector kit for transponder Narco AT 50 |
STEINAIR ALSO HAS BOTH
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:45 AM, DANIEL PELLETIER <pelletie1959@me.com>
wrote:
> pelletie1959@me.com>
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> Thanks !
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> Envoy=C3=A9 de mon iPad
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> > Le 2015-04-27 =C3- 21:41, Chuck Birdsall <cbirdsall6@cox.net> a =C3
=A9crit :
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> cbirdsall6@cox.net>
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> > You might give lane-pilot.com a try.
> >
> > He doesn't list the connecter online but if you send him a note he may
> have a serviceable used one. He does carry the pins.
> >
> > Chuck
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> > On Apr 27, 2015, at 20:14, DANIEL PELLETIER <pelletie1959@me.com> wrote
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> pelletie1959@me.com>
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> > I'm looking for the 18 pins connector And Molex terminals and I don't
> find any place to buy it.
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> > A suggestion maybe.
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> > Daniel Pelletier
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Subject: | Re: Starter Solenoid behavior with low Battery |
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Subject: | Flexible Wire for Pull Out Fuse Tray? |
Hello Bob,
Thanks again for all your help over the years of our (wife and my) Lancair
Legacy project.
In our electrical system design, we've gone with a pull-out fuse tray that
is on the right side of the instrument panel. It's about 4 " tall, 2" wide,
24" long and uses blade fuses that light up when they've blown. All the
fuse blocks are easily visible to the pilot when the tray is pulled out.
We chose this solution because of its simplicity and minimum real estate on
the Legacy's small instrument panel. In its implementation, though, I'm a
bit concerned with the fatigue life of the thick wires running to it with
the tray being pulled out and in for each flight with before takeoff checks.
The MIL-W-22759 wire in these gauges is fairly stiff. There are several
since the diodes between buses are on the avionics shelf because of fuse
tray space limitations.
Is there a very flexible 10 and 8 AWG wire that we could use for the
connections between our fuse tray and avionics shelf, that can better handle
the fuse tray motion/flexing than the MIL-W-22759, and is air worthy?
Thanks,
Valin Thorn
Lancair Legacy Project
Colorado
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Subject: | Re: Starter Solenoid behavior with low Battery |
Re-sending:
What about the proposal to eliminate the starter contactor? I am looking
at the Skytec dagram here:
> http://www.skytecair.com/Wiring_diag.htm
The starter barely gets 10 volts after the master contactor and the
starter contactor in series. By eliminating the starter contactor, you
would have a hot wire to the starter whenever the master is on. Is this
a good idea or suicide?
john
On 4/28/2015 11:31 AM, Robert L. Nuckolls, III wrote:
> At 19:26 2015-04-27, you wrote:
> <skyeyecorp@airpost.net>
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> Recently my battery fell below 11 volts and so it could not provide
> enough power to completely turn over my engine. What surprised me more
> than the low battery was that after switching off my master and then
> switching it back on again, the starter attempted to turn the engine.
> Wow, the master isn't supposed to control the starter solenoid!
>
> After charging the battery, the master and starter switches returned
> to normal operation and the engine started perfectly many times. All
> was good and I eventually figured out why my battery discharged.
> However, that still left me wondering how the master switch could
> possibly activate the starter solenoid without my pushing the start
> switch. My theory is that the low voltage only partially (weekly)
> engaged the starter solenoid spring and therefore the spring didn't
> exert full force to open the solenoid after it was de-energized. I'm
> not yet ready to conclude that the starter solenoid is actually
> defective. Anybody also experienced this?
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Subject: | Re: Starter Solenoid behavior with low Battery |
Ok, I was worried there for a while thinking that either I burned up my starter
solenoid contacts and/or that it was mounted upside down. Like I said in my original
post, now that battery voltage is normal, the starter solenoid is operating
perfectly. However, I agree that I probably abused it with the low battery
situation, probably shortening its expected service life, and I will be on
the look out for future problems with it.
--Jose
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