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Dave12 06-04-2020 04:51 PM

How much time is on your Plane Power Alternator?
 
I have read about the miserable experiences some have experienced with their PP Alternator. I have considered swapping mine for a B&C unit. I have about 550 hours on mine. I?m just curious if there are others who have racked up higher amounts of times on theirs. It goes a bit against my grain to fix the unbroken, but I do get the feeling it might be borrowing time.

Aussieflyer 06-04-2020 05:04 PM

300 hours
 
I got about 300 hours before the rear bearings failed. My buddies just got 200 hours and 600 hours before their regulators commenced to spike and cause the VPX to trip the Nav/Com and transponder circuits.

Alan

Walt 06-04-2020 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave12 (Post 1436277)
I have read about the miserable experiences some have experienced with their PP Alternator. I have considered swapping mine for a B&C unit. I have about 550 hours on mine. I’m just curious if there are others who have racked up higher amounts of times on theirs. It goes a bit against my grain to fix the unbroken, but I do get the feeling it might be borrowing time.

By all means keep running it, you may get a few more hours out of it.
Definitely best to wait until you're stranded somewhere, with no tools, on a trip with the wife before you replace it :eek:

Dave12 06-04-2020 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Walt (Post 1436288)
By all means keep running it, you may get a few more hours out of it.
Definitely best to wait until you're stranded somewhere, with no tools, on a trip with the wife before you replace it :eek:

Bad day at work?

romaja 06-04-2020 06:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Walt (Post 1436288)
By all means keep running it, you may get a few more hours out of it.
Definitely best to wait until you're stranded somewhere, with no tools, on a trip with the wife before you replace it :eek:

Lame post. A member asks an honest question and you barrage him with sarcasm.

schristo@mac.com 06-04-2020 06:35 PM

2,350 on mine... so far ;)
 
2,350 on mine... so far ;)

I have always had a blast tube on the regulator.

Dan Langhout 06-04-2020 06:50 PM

587 Hrs and 6 years . . . .
 
. . . . . of trouble free operation so far. I guess it could fail tomorrow . . . . . :rolleyes:

Walt 06-04-2020 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave12 (Post 1436298)
Bad day at work?

Sorry can't blame it on that, I'm self employed, if I start having a rough day I just go home....

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Originally Posted by romaja (Post 1436302)
Lame post. A member asks an honest question and you barrage him with sarcasm.

Guess you're not from NY, and I've been called way worse than 'lame'.

Perhaps I should have said something a little 'nicer' like:

'do yourself a favor and replace that POS before it fails and leaves you stranded'.... there is that better?

YellowJacket RV9 06-04-2020 07:29 PM

I don't get all the fuss - There's over 500 hours on my $50 Suzuki alternator, and I can find a replacement at any autozone.

But to answer more productively, there was a poll a while back about alternator reliability, and it seems like theres a wide variety of experiences with every type. How much trouble will it be to replace your alternator if it does go bad? I don't recall it being a terrible job. Would it be a simple enough swap to just keep a cheap auto alternator on hand just in case you need something to get you home?

Chris

Walt 06-04-2020 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by YellowJacket RV9 (Post 1436326)
I don't get all the fuss - There's over 500 hours on my $50 Suzuki alternator, and I can find a replacement at any autozone.

Chris

Last time I checked foreflight it didn't show the location of all the autozones in the USA or how to flight plan for that route. :D

Ok I'm gonna stop now...


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