harvey4(at)earthlink.net
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 Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:22 pm Post subject: AeroElectric-List: Van's gauges |
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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:
[quote] Similar, my pressure and temperature gauges failed at around 400 hours. So all of the Van’s gauges, save for fuel gauges, were pull out and replaced with a GRT EIS 4000. Now approaching 700 hours I’m going to replace the fuel gauges with a dual UMA 2 ¼.
Peter
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