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11-17-2009, 01:22 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Corvallis Oregon
Posts: 3,547
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I did it again
Yup the left the master on from when I last flew a week ago! This is the second time. I have next week off and will be making an audible warning system..Namely a canopy switch and Radio Shack buzzer.
Interestingly I hooked up the battery charger junior and it would not charge...Zero output. It seems the charger has to see some back EMF to switch itself on.
Left it overnight and still nothing today.
For grins I today hooked up a small test battery in parallel to the Odyssey and then the charger to this small batt.
When I left the small battery was stuffing just under 1 amp into the Odyssey and the charger was cranking for all it was worth to keep the battery volts up.
I am hoping this will work..I'll go back this evening and see how things are progressing.
Frank
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11-17-2009, 01:48 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Redmond, WA
Posts: 269
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Suggest that you leave your strobes on at all times. Makes it really obvious that your master is still on...
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11-17-2009, 02:02 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Corvallis Oregon
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Ahh yes..well next week is annual condition inspection...I will be making the buzzer/canopy switch warning deal at that time..I already have the parts.
Frank
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11-17-2009, 03:17 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Saint Simons Island , GA
Posts: 1,520
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ANNOYING
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Originally Posted by mculver
Suggest that you leave your strobes on at all times. Makes it really obvious that your master is still on...
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Strobes on on the ramp are just annoying.. especially at night when they kill everyone's night vision.
Perhaps, a checklist actually used would fix the problem once and for all..
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Jerry "Widget" Morris
RV 8, N8JL, 3,000+ hours on my 8.
VAF #818
Saint Simons Island, GA. KSSI
PIF 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
 I just wish I could afford to live the way I do 
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11-17-2009, 03:25 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Savannah, GA
Posts: 1,849
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Maybe just put one of the wall timers in the place of your master switch! 
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Todd
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RV-10 Vesta V8 LS2/BMA EFIS/One formerly flying at 3J1 Hobbs stopped at 150 hours
Savannah, GA and Ridgeland, SC
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11-17-2009, 03:54 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Corvallis Oregon
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Hahah...Checklist what a concept...  |
11-17-2009, 03:56 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Huskerland, USA
Posts: 5,862
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mculver
Suggest that you leave your strobes on at all times. Makes it really obvious that your master is still on...
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That tip has saved me more than a few times from having a dead battery. Pretty hard to leave the hanger not knowing the strobes are on. I shut them off after I leave he runway and turn them back on at shut down.
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RV-10 : In the hangar
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11-17-2009, 04:05 PM
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been here awhile
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Alabama
Posts: 4,300
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Geico266
That tip has saved me more than a few times from having a dead battery. Pretty hard to leave the hanger not knowing the strobes are on. I shut them off after I leave he runway and turn them back on at shut down.
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Uh........if I could remember to turn strobes back on at shut down I could probably remember to turn the master off...................
The Radio Shack thingie screaming at you is hard to miss. I bought a switch for a canopy-open override but so far have found no reason to install it. |
11-17-2009, 04:44 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Jackson, MS
Posts: 1,262
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What about a red LED light by the handle or the lock?
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Webb Willmott
Jackson, MS
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11-17-2009, 04:55 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Corvallis Oregon
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Doesn't work in bright sunlight..I mean all the Dynon screens are lit up but clearly I even missed those twice!
Frank
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