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dan(at)familybrown.org
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Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:03 am Post subject: [AeroElectric-List] Questions about circuit protection

Quoting Carlos Trigo <trigo(at)mail.telepac.pt>:



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		   2)   You are flying along in your airplane with Fuses, the radio goes dead,

 and nothing else happens.  What do you do?  Fly the airplane!! not knowing

 what happened. Did I loose the alternator? Is there anything that is going

 to start a fire? What should I do? Should I land ASAP? Shall I declare an

 emergency? Next, anything can happen to the pilot, even panic


	


Losing the alternator won't take out the radio, unless you don't have  

a battery (in which case it will take out everything electrical).   

Losing the alternator will, however, activate the low-voltage warning  

that you have installed (don't you?), letting you know that you're  

running on battery power.  If you're panicking (as most of your  

questions sound like) over losing one radio, you probably shouldn't be  

a pilot.



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		   When you get on the ground you troubleshoot the problem.  If it was a fuse,

 it can take some time to find out which.


	


If it takes you more than 30 seconds to find which fuse goes to that  

radio, you haven't designed or labeled your electrical system very well.



-- 

Dan Brown, KE6MKS, dan(at)familybrown.org

"Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the

more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring."

  -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille

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trigo(at)mail.telepac.pt
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Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:54 am Post subject: [AeroElectric-List] Questions about circuit protection

Dear Dan  

   

I shouldn’t be a pilot (which I am for over 32 years now), I didn’t design or labelled very well my electrical system (which I’ve done many times), then, with all the respect, you shouldn’t be commenting… sir!  

   

Best regards  

Carlos  

   

P.S. You probably didn’t read the part of my last comment (the only in which I didn’t panic) when I said I built and fly one airplane with fuses, one airplane with circuit breakers, and the one I’m currently finishing building have both. Don’t loose your time, just hit the delete button  

   

   

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