danny_galaga

Yes, I don't think it's actually needed. Unlike 3 phase car alternators, where from my very shaky memory, the warning light goes through the exciter diodes, which gets the rotor windings going until the alternator outputs energy. If the warning light blew in that case, your car alternator might not start charging. But the joys and wonders of electrical engineering - quite often there's enough residential magnetism in the rotor to get everything going regardless. Usually after a big rev. Anyway, that doesn't help the op 😄

Can you disconnect the capacitor? I don't think the capacitor should affect it, but you are thinking it and that would be the easiest way to know for sure. In any case, it would boil down to something going on with the regulator since it normally wouldn't do this.

In all seriousness though, this is a good outcome. I flew out of Heck Field when test flying a demo plane. Cane fields all around. Pretty safe for emergencies, but obviously it's not going to be tidy.

A couple of questions: Why were emergency crews 'stunned'? Was a lizard person flying it? Why are casa investigating?

I wonder if the tacho wire is running along the aerial coaxial cable or something and it's picking up energy? Seems more like the radio is fine, and the tacho needs investigating 🤔

Is yours working alright at the moment though? I was only going to replace mine because I thought it was dying. Even my mechanic was happy about the improvement when I replaced the starter battery.

No thanks 😄

Well, central anyway. I grew up in Darwin and I don't think I ever saw a scorpion. A BILLION cockroaches though. I don't miss those 😄

Well, my MGL seems to have come good! The only thing that has changed is that the starter battery was going downhill fast, so after the last flight (where it only just started, even after charging it for 30 minutes) I put a new one in. Could it be my radio is a bit sensitive to the extra, and constant current draw of my dicky battery? Thoughts Kyle? In any case, should I ever have to replace the radio, Trig is getting such a good rap I would be silly not to go in that direction. I'm thinking if I mount it under the seat, I could make the aerial coaxial cable about 1.5 metres shorter, which can't hurt 🙂

Trig TY91 is about $2800 in Australia. From memory, my MGL was about $1200 USD

If you are using a currently available model of radio, what is it, and are you happy with it? I have an MGL. It seems to have gone downhill fast. I have time off next two weeks so I can have a really good at the wiring, aerial etc. but the radio started off well, and the plane only has about 6 hours total flight time, so I feel it probably is the radio. When I told an avionics guy what brand, he asked how much I paid. When I told him it was free, he said that's about the right price 😄. My guy helping with the test flying and another guy at the hangar didn't think much of MGL either. The other guy actually threw his away 😲 They are very happy with Trig TY91, so that's on my radar. My only concern there is it's one of those 'head unit and base unit ' jobbies, which will make installation in my case a bit of a bother, depending on whether I can just join them.into one unit or not...

A full 30 minutes 😲 Here's a post of mine on a different forum. 2004. Notice the link in the first post? https://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,20073.0.html#msg161529

Many of us have asked this. Not going to happen. You've got 15 minutes and then all your mistakes are locked in forever 😄

Well I haven't added an earth to mine. I guess it could be earthing through that foil covered fibreglass heat shield I guess 😊

Yeah, I figure since the Carmo is made for aircraft it's fully above ground electrically. The Ducati one obviously is for motorbikes which use the frame for negative ground.