---------------------------------------------------------- RV-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sun 03/11/12: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 11:28 AM - Flap Motor Failure (MLE) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 11:28:29 AM PST US Subject: RV-List: Flap Motor Failure From: MLE At about 70 hours my flap motor likewise failed. I did not take it apart but removed it from the mounting and sprayed the motor only down with some brake cleaner, the kind in a spray can that leaves no residue and flushed it out real good. Put back in the ship and it's been working fine for another 100 hours so far. Beats taking the brushes out and in! Your milage may vary Marty in Brentwood TN RV6A - N826ME Time: 01:45:17 PM PST US Subject: RV-List: flap motor Failure?. From: thomas sargent Thursday morning when doing touch and goes in my 6A my flap motor stopped working. I landed and raced off to work and got back to it this morning. It will work for a while and then fail. I removed the switch (a high quality, sealed mil-spec switch) and tested it a lot on the bench - it never failed, I put it back in and the motor was intermittent. I removed the panel to access the motor and tried shaking the wiring and disconnecting and reconnecting the connector I have installed there, all to no effect. Failures didn't seem to correlate with anything Then I made a mating connector with 2 bare leads so the next time it failed I could disconnect the motor, connect the test connector and measure the voltage to see if voltage was getting to the motor. Of course, after that I couldn't get it to fail again. The connectors are good quality automotive ones with gold plated pins. I haven't had any failures of these connectors and I used a lot of them. So my question is about Van's flap motor typical failure modes. My suspicion is that the wiring and switch are OK - I suspect the motor. Can/does the motor itself often fail this way? I vaguely recall people say these motors aren't very reliable. -- Tom Sargent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message rv-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/RV-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/rv-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/rv-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.