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Old 10-12-2008, 06:02 PM
Mike Ice Mike Ice is offline
 
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Default Pmags gone

Good point Kevin.

It hardly ever gets hot enough here in Alaska to pose that problem of needing more cooling but...

Last winter a friend covered up most of the air inlets on his 7 but it was -20, yep twenty degrees below zero.

I still have the holes in the rear baffle wall and will keep a check on the mags. I already know I will have to add some sort of an air **** in front of the #1 cylinder and a cover on the oil cooler. Both the #1 cylinder head temp and the oil temp are low.

Oh well, I am getting to where I don't fly much in the winter anymore so it really doesn't matter anymore.

Good point Roger, Most Cessnas I owned could climb at over 100 mph but not very fast.

I really liked the E/P mags. They just seemed to fragile and complicated for my use. If I lost one of them in Barrow or Shishmareff I would be screwed but with the Unison most mechanics will have a fix.

I will have an E & a P mag for sale real soon. I will send them both back to Emagair for all available updates before I sell them.

Once again I have nothing bad to say about Emagair, they just did not work for me.


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Old 10-12-2008, 06:04 PM
Mike Ice Mike Ice is offline
 
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Default oops, made an error on previous post

I meant to type some sort of air dam in front of the #1 cylinder and hit an extra n.

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Old 11-08-2008, 09:23 AM
Mike Ice Mike Ice is offline
 
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Default Answer to the mystery P Mag problem

I finally have the Mags back from Emagair and the solution to all my problems with the P-Mag was finally discovered.

This message was sent to me by Brad and I believe it was the problem all along.

"The shaft was pushed in on 1019, (yellow LED alert) may have happened during the return shipping. If it was that way when you had it, you would have seen the same thing (Yellow LED) and it would not work at all. When position was corrected, it worked fine on the bench. We went ahead and replaced the circuit board anyway to make certain there wasn?t something else on causing a problem. We did the service bulletin on both so they are current."

I never even realized that you could get a yellow light on the LED indicator. I checked it after I installed it and timed the mag. It looked sort of green to me, how green, yellow is a combination of green and red. It certainly wasn't red so I thought it was green.

Oh well, My loss is your gain.

The Mags are back and are now for sale. I have over $2,300 in costs for the mags, auto harness, plug adapters drive gear, plugs and maybe $400 in shipping costs. Expensive lesson but time to move on.

Brad suggested that a fair price might be to knock 20% off the total.

What do you think? Any offers?

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Old 11-08-2008, 10:03 AM
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