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sportav8r(at)gmail.com
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 2:05 pm Post subject: AEC9004

Bob - how's it coming?  Two years after revision 12 hit the press, we're still waiting       I know we can soldier on with the interim drawing, but wondered if the IR alternator controller was ready to be born. 



Bill B.

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nuckolls.bob(at)aeroelect
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:46 am Post subject: AEC9004

At 06:01 PM 4/9/2011, you wrote:

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		  Bob - how's it coming?  Two years after revision 12 hit the press, 

we're still waiting       I know we can soldier on with the 

interim drawing, but wondered if the IR alternator controller was 

ready to be born.


	


    Good question. When the 9004 was conceived, I still had

    access to some alternators mounted on drive stands and the

    preliminary work suggested the idea was worth developing.

    I acquired my own drive stand.



http://aeroelectric.com/Pictures/Alternator_Test_Stand/Alternator_Test_Stand_1.jpg



    and started to modify it for development of an aircraft

    electrical system and install it in my shop. Even

    acquired the single-phase to-three-phase converter

    and got a 60A 240 line run out to the garage.



    Then I moved to M.L. The fat wire 240 line is 130 feet

    away . . . and taxations on my time took a quantum

    jump by the unintended acquisition of too much

    rental property (houses we intended to sell the

    same time the housing market was diving off the cliff).



    So now, I have this big machine sitting in my garage

    and more man-hours away from a utilitarian state than

    before.



    Plan C . . . or is it D? I forget. The 9024 is

    going to be done first. I'm going to convert the

    electrical system in my '87 Jimmy to look like Z-11.

    I'll install a suite of 9024's in the truck to make

    sure I'm satisfied with the way they work. When

    that's done, the truck will become the test bed for

    the 9004.



    I've got to pick up the drive stand for a third time

    and haul it back to the project's benefactor who

    requested that I return it when I was finished with it.



    In the mean time, the pressure is off on perfecting

    the 9004. Many of you will recall my visit to MPA's

    overhaul shops and development labs a few years back.

    (See chapter 3, in 12th edition 'Connections.)

    I witnessed some spectacular demonstrations of five,

    max-temperature, max-rating load-dumps in a row on

    exemplar alternators.



    The engineer in charge asserted that any alternator

    builder worthy of the name puts out a product that

    is not vulnerable to the occasional b-lead disconnect.



    I've concluded that all the floobydust thrown into

    the air about AeroElectric crowbar systems being

    the kiss of death to otherwise 'perfectly good'

    alternators had more to do with throwing sand than

    with a sharing of useful information.

   Bob . . .

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