Dan,
Thanks for the advice! My fuel vent heaters spliced into the air speed
indicator wires. Load shedding seems to be limited to pulling the
circuit breaker or turning off the switch, except the stall warning
horn, and it is hot wired.
Moe
N680RR
Proud Holder of The Golden Pedal Award
From: Dan Farmer
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:05 AM
To: commander-list-digest@matronics.com
Subject: fuel vent heat check
This is so easy. Turn on the master switch, turn on the
pitot/fuel vent heat switch now take about 2 minutes then put your lips
on the vents like you were to suck a straw. Be sure to do this before
you suck on the pitot tube. Otherwise your lips will be burned so bad
you will never be able to feel the slight warmth from the vent. If you
really do this you deserve what you get. In all seriousness, my vents
are always quite warm to the touch in about 30 seconds after turning on
the heat switch. I seriously doubt that airframes of this vintage and
size have load shedding. In the 1960's I don't think Boeing or Douglas
was using auto load shedding. I think it was called a flight engineer.
CHECK ESSENTIAL!!!
dan f
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