In every way, actually. It was another beautiful high-pressure day for working outside on 28AAD, my French Weedhopper, with a high of around 21 degrees Celsius and no wind to speak of, and I also got a good bit done.<\/p>\n
The first thing that I tackled was the non-working rev counter, which was easy to solve. An elderly male spade connector hadn’t mated properly with a new female one (shades of real life there…) and the wires had become unplugged. A few moments making the connection gave a fully functional rev counter, so then it was on to the next task, namely the CHT gauge.<\/p>\n
Only one half of the dual gauge was working yesterday and I was pleased to find that when I switched the connections over, the fault moved across to the other side. This indicated to me that the connections were OK but that one sensor had failed.<\/p>\n
Luckily Victor had generously passed over to me a couple of almost new sensors that were surplus to requirements on his Rans S12 because, like my X-Air, it has a water cooled engine. As they were in much better condition than the old ex-MYRO sensors that were on what is now 28AAD’s engine I was going to switch them anyway, and when I did sure enough I had a fully functional CHT gauge.<\/p>\n
So, two out of two so far – could my luck hold with the non-functioning EGT gauge or had the sensors been damaged during MYRO’s recovery (the gauge is brand new)? One side of the gauge had seemed to function intermittently so I tried jiggling the connections a bit. One connector, that I’d recently repaired, snapped so that was probably the source of the ‘intermittent’ problem.<\/p>\n
So I thought that I’d check the other pair, and found that when I connected either sensor on the ‘working’ side of the gauge, I got a reading. So both sensors seemed to be working and then it looked as though all I had to do was leave the working sensor connected and repair the connection that had snapped on the other side of the gauge. And sure enough, when I did that the dual gauge worked exactly as it should.<\/p>\n
So that was three out of three and as the afternoon was drawing to a close (curses on this playing around with the clocks – we need the lighter afternoons and evenings, not the mornings) it was time to call it a day with another good result under my belt.<\/p>\n
The weather is forecast to start getting a bit cooler after today with rain forecast for Saturday but I hope that if I can sort out 28AAD’s brakes tomorrow and get to the bottom of the wing pin problem I’ll have flown it over to Malbec and have it under cover by then. I hope so anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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