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Re: Europa-List: Rotax Circuit Wiring....... Help would be best and most

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Rotax Circuit Wiring....... Help would be best and most
From: Michael Grass <M.Grass@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:20:18
Bob,

The wire numbers are :- 

a) 10..28 are   12 V Warning light red "Boost" (28 is the positive side 
and  10 is the negative side)  

The newest English installation manual has an error here. The older 
English manual is correct and is also identical with the newest German 
installation manual. 

b) 11..35 are   12 V Warning light orange "Caution" (35 is the positive 
side and 11 is the negative side)

For a+b: Caution !!! Do not connect the negative side to ground and do 
not connect the positive side to +12V bus!!!

c1) 25 goes to the aircraft ground bus

c2) 1 goes via a 2 amp fuse to your 12 V bus

c3) 14 + 2 is for the 2 pole servo isolation switch. The isolating 
switch has to be installed directly into the lines from the 36 pole plug 
receptacle to servo motor. Be careful not to change the polarity. Cut 
firs wire and connect to the switch before you move to the second one.  

d) two yellow shielded alternator output and go to the G terminals of 
the regulator. No polarity required but do not connect them together 
into one terminal? 

You find very detailed information in chapter 19 of the 914 installation 
manual. Again, caution with chapter 19.4.10 of the Juli 01/2006 manual. 
The polarity has been marked wrong in the English translation.

Best regards

Michael Grass
A266 Trigear, Detroit
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: R.C.Harrison 
  To: europa-list@matronics.com 
  Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 12:42 AM
  Subject: Europa-List: Rotax Circuit Wiring....... Help would be best 
and most appreciated ? or ident key would help !


  Hi! Guys.

  Apart from about 6 months getting psyched up about the Rotax and all 
associated with it I've been a couple of days and have done the 
temperature and pressure instrumentation connections (or what I haven't 
done I have no problem over!) 

  NOW I'M BORED AND WANT THIS BIRD BACK IN THE AIR so I can sleep nights 
without wakening and having brain traumas.

     However really I'm quite a "bo bo" on electrics except I do have a 
fair capability with the English language and so am quite able to know 
that switches and wires all need connecting to indicator lights(some 
warning) all in an organised plan with positive buzz  and negative buzz 
origins all with suitable fuses etc. (oh ! and momentarily "push to 
break" buttons too!) and ignition port and starboard "mag switches" 
grounded at both ends and so on, also..

  I have the Europa /Rotax BASIC electrical circuit diagram on which, 
(in spite of having adequately driven a Jabiru !) is common with my 
panel set up, so now instead of trawling through pages of Rotax 
Installation CD all I need is a "paint by numbers" guide as to where a 
mere hand full of wire "pairs" are supposed to be connected which are 
all numbered as below.

  Is there please anyone (Rotax electrically competent!) able to assist 
me with marrying the blessed wire numbers with what their useful and 
correct destination should be ? 

   

  The wire numbers are :- 

  a) .... 10..28 are   ...........and go to......   ?

  b) ......... 11..35 are   ...........and go to......   ?

  c) .... 25..14 are   ...........and go to......   ?

  d) ....two yellow shielded..........and go to ......  ?  ( I guess 
between the Alternator and regulator but I thought the mag wires needed 
shielding which ever they are?)

  Oh! and that brings to mind the fact that my mag. switches are already 
grounded but where do I ground the other end ..when I find the shielding 
?

   

  Of course wires 19.31.7  and 14..2 all link the turbo waste gate 
operational motor with the Turbo Control Unit. Rotax were kind enough to 
have preassembled that !

   

  Here's hoping I get some response this time since I received a stony 
silence over my previous posting raising the question of  "preferable 
rotational timing" of a three blade propeller to the "top dead centre" 
position of No 1 cylinder firing stroke ? (on a 4 cylinder Rotax!)

   

  Best regards 

  Bob Harrison G-PTAG still sat in the garage after past 12 months and 
counting !

   

  Robt.C.Harrison

   



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