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Red Cube floating
I just replaced my red cube Ft-60 at 168 hrs. It floats at the rear of my IO 360 after the mech. Fuel pump and before the fuel servo . It became intermittent and unreliable , so I bought one at AC Spruce . I know that the engine on shut down produces very high G's about 30 I have been told . It could be that the failure was caused by mounting it floating on fte fuel line and shakened to death ???? I still have it mounted this way as I never considered the mounting could have been the cause of it failing with only 168 hrs of use until following along on this thread. Something to think about ? :confused:
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Red Cube Installation Clarification
Emailed Electronics International who builds the FT-60 cube about mounting preference. Daniel from Tech Support wrote me back to say that the cube can be hard mounted using the mounting holes or can float between the fuel hoses. Must be mounted downstream of All fuel pumps. If hard mounted you must use flex hoses in and out of the cube. Mounting should be on the same vibration plane which is to say a hard mount on the engine as opposed to the firewall is recommended.
This is the definitive answer to the question and not my opinion. The older fuel flow transducers prior to the cube were made of a pot metal material and were not strong enough to be hard mounted without cracking. I think this is where the free floating mounting came from originally. The cube was specifically designed for hard mount which is why it has mounting holes in the aluminum case. Thought I would pass this along.... Brad |
So I am getting ready to have a condition inspection done on my (bought, not built) RV7. It's only about two years old, but I have been getting obviously bogus readings on the Fuel Flow. I had the cowling off the other day and took a close look at the Red Cube.
It's mounted on the lower right firewall, more or less attached to the gascolator and then to the hose that goes to the engine fuel pump. I don't see any bracket holding it to the firewall. What I do see however is that the wire comes out of the cube facing straight ahead, and some insulation on the white wire is coming off, exposing the inside wires. This wire is barely touching the engine mount. ![]() Picture is taken looking down and aft towards the red cube, gascolator on left. Not sure what to do at this point but I want to have some recommendations for my IA when he starts work on the condition inspection... Any ideas? Thanks |
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sLarry |
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Where are most folks installing the red cube in this type of situation? If I relocate the cube is it likely to start giving realistic readings, or will I have other issues that might be due to the white wire insulation gap? thanks again. |
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Either way, I would do some re-routing before replacing your cube to get accurate readings. |
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Got this from E.I. tech support today, I am planning to check my G3X setup tomorrow. Interestingly, he said nothing about the orientation of the wire coming out of the cube.
"For the installation side, the transducer needs to be downstream of the fuel pump and have soft fuel hose in and out of the transducer. I do not believe that your installation location has anything to do with the issue you are seeing. I have heard of this issue many times specific to the G3X. After speaking with a Garmin rep I am confident that the issue is a K-factoring issue in their instrument. Our transducers K-factor is 68,000. I believe that when the Garmin is programmed for that, the fuel reading will be too high. Recently the calls about this have been declining so I believe that Garmin may have made a change to their system (this is just an assumption based upon tech support calls). I would first check to see that the K-factor is set to 68,000 in the G3X. If it is then I would recommend contacting Garmin and checking to see if they have a firmware update that fixes this issue. " |
What about hoses?
I'm about to put in an order for a Red Cube transducer. Could someone please share the sizes and lengths of hoses needed to install it on my RV-8 with an IO-360?
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-4 downstream from the servo. Lengths??? where are you going to put it? That will determine the 2 hose lengths. There isnt a "'SPECIFIC LOCATION" . That would be too easy.
Tom |
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