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In 420 house over three plus years a number of Van's gauges have failed
(fuel quantity, volts, amps, oil pressure). Now I must install the third volt
meter. I like the look of Van's gauges and the fact that they match, but
don't like the failure rate. What have your experiences been?
Pete in Clearwater
RV-6 - Reserve Grand Champion, S 'n F 2006 and other awards
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| Subject: | Re: Van's gauges |
130 hours. no failures in my RV6. Maybe voltage problem or vibration?
--- On Mon, 9/14/09, PeterHunt1@aol.com <PeterHunt1@aol.com> wrote:
> From: PeterHunt1@aol.com <PeterHunt1@aol.com>
> Subject: RV6-List: Van's gauges
> To: RV6-list@matronics.com, aeroelectric-list@matronics.com
> Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 1:46 PM
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> In 420 house over three plusyears a number
> ofVan's gaugeshave failed (fuel quantity,
> volts, amps, oil pressure). Now I must install the
> third volt meter. I like the look of Van's gauges
> and the fact that they match, but don't like the failure
> rate. What have your experiences been?
>
> Pete in Clearwater
> RV-6 - Reserve Grand Champion, S 'n F 2006 and
> other awards
>
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>
>
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| Subject: | RE: AeroElectric-List: Van's gauges |
Of all the teething troubles I've experienced
since my plane first flew (about 60 hours on the
airframe now), almost ALL were caused by %^$#&* Van's gauges lying to me.
I spent 6 months chasing hot oil till I realized it was a lie.
The RPM at cruise at 180 kts is regularly reported by Van's as 1000 Revs.
The ammeter swings from full -ve to full +ve all the time in flight.
Voltage display is about 11v most of the time (I
have a digital voltmeter hooked up to the bus showing a true 13.5 volts)
Lately, the CHT on #4 has gone to 450 indicated -
but nothing has been changed to the cooling flow.
I'm gonna take great pleasure in dumping these
trash gauges in the pool and installing a Dynon EIS as soon as I can.
Recommendation to anyone contemplating these gauges is - DON'T! They're
junk!
Neil
At 06:10 PM 9/14/2009, you wrote:
>Similar, my pressure and temperature gauges
>failed at around 400 hours. So all of the Van=92s
>gauges, save for fuel gauges, were pull out and
>replaced with a GRT EIS 4000. Now approaching
>700 hours I=92m going to replace the fuel gauges with a dual UMA 2 =BC.
>
>Peter
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>-----Original Message-----
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>On Behalf Of PeterHunt1@aol.com
>Sent: 14 September 2009 18:46
>To: RV6-list@matronics.com; aeroelectric-list@matronics.com
>Subject: AeroElectric-List: Van's gauges
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>In 420 house over three plus years a number of
>Van's gauges have failed (fuel quantity, volts,
>amps, oil pressure). Now I must install the
>third volt meter. I like the look of Van's
>gauges and the fact that they match, but don't
>like the failure rate. What have your experiences been?
>
>Pete in Clearwater
>RV-6 - Reserve Grand Champion, S 'n F 2006 and other awards
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