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Re: oil pressure question...

Subject: Re: oil pressure question...
From: McFadyean <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 20:59:03
Is this the standard Rotax sender with the bras anti-resonance ring?
Makes a case for remote mounting.

Duncan Mcf

On Saturday, October 05, 2002 10:33 AM, Roger Anderson 
[SMTP:Randerson@skewstacks.freeserve.co.uk]
wrote:
> I'm now on my third sensor and have only just passed the 180 hour mark. The
> replacements cost about ?100.00p a time - can anyone source a cheaper, more
> reliable replacement?
> Roger Anderson G-BXTD
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Watts" <dg.watts@virgin.net>
> Subject: Re:  oil pressure question...
> 
> 
> > I had a similar problem recently and when I discussed it with Skdrive they
> > said that the sender was the likely problem.
> > I replaced the sender and instantly had stable readings again.
> >
> > Dave Watts G-BXDY
> >
> > p.s. It seems after talking to a few others that tese go wrong quite
> > regularly and they have all been amazed that we have managed to get 800
> > hours out of ours.
> >
> > >> I recently changed the oil pressure gauge to cure a rapidly fluctuating
> > indication (far quicker than the oil pressure could feasibly change). I
> now
> > have a nice stable reading, excwpt that every so often the needle goes
> > off-scale at the high end, then slowly returns to normal. There does not
> yet
> > seem to be any set of flight conditions or power settings linked to this,
> > other than I have only ever seen it after 40 to 50 minutes of flight. This
> > is the only instrument that shows a bad reading. My suspicions are with
> the
> > wiring, and I would like to confirm this by using a DVM around the system.
> >
> >
> 


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