fstringham7a
Well Known Member
RE: oil temp probe !!??
Long story short my third oil probe from GRT is bad!!!! And my original probe from Dynon (single wire) never was stable even after a rework of the ground system to beef it up? First GRT probe died on it's first flight ( July 2011) as temp climbed it dropped to 15 degrees and there it stayed. Second GRT probe lasted a year but a couple of weeks ago it gave up the ghost by going to 16 degrees and alternating between correct oil temp and 16 degrees depending on how hot the oil was. High oil temp back to 16 ..... Then when the oil temp reached a magic lower temp it would go back to reading a seemingly correct oil temp. So last week GRT sends out the third probe. Wired it up ..... Turned on the Dynon D120 .... Recalibrated it to the correct # 3 setting ..... Outside air temp 90 oil temp 63 ..... You have got to be kidding me??? No such luck, after trouble shooting the probe with GRT tech's it was determined that their latest greatest probe that supposedly fixed the problems of the previous batch that went dead on me was also pronounced dead. They are now sending out a fourth probe that they benched tested to make sure it was reading correctly. It might arrive by Thursday. Great just two days beyond my scheduled family trip to Oregon when I planned to leave tomorrow?.. So a call to Dynon to see if they have a better probe for the D120 than my original 2009 model. Their tech folks told me they did not. They said they are aware of the problem but they have been putting their efforts into the Skyview latest greatest. Wow and I thought my D100/D120 was the latest greatest. He admitted that they should give us ancient monitor guys a break and come up with a better oil probe especially considering we are going to a competitor to find a solution that in the end at least for me hasn't been very satisfactory. He said they need to get a two wire solution for us D120 folks but can't promise when that will be. He did say he was going to put in a request with the big guys in the front office to turn them loose to fix this but again who knows when that will be........
So short story long ..... Here I sit waiting on a probe instead of excitingly getting all my stuff together for a trip long planned and highly anticipated. But that is the life of an experimenter!!!!!!'!!!!!!!!!'!!!!!!!!!
Long story short my third oil probe from GRT is bad!!!! And my original probe from Dynon (single wire) never was stable even after a rework of the ground system to beef it up? First GRT probe died on it's first flight ( July 2011) as temp climbed it dropped to 15 degrees and there it stayed. Second GRT probe lasted a year but a couple of weeks ago it gave up the ghost by going to 16 degrees and alternating between correct oil temp and 16 degrees depending on how hot the oil was. High oil temp back to 16 ..... Then when the oil temp reached a magic lower temp it would go back to reading a seemingly correct oil temp. So last week GRT sends out the third probe. Wired it up ..... Turned on the Dynon D120 .... Recalibrated it to the correct # 3 setting ..... Outside air temp 90 oil temp 63 ..... You have got to be kidding me??? No such luck, after trouble shooting the probe with GRT tech's it was determined that their latest greatest probe that supposedly fixed the problems of the previous batch that went dead on me was also pronounced dead. They are now sending out a fourth probe that they benched tested to make sure it was reading correctly. It might arrive by Thursday. Great just two days beyond my scheduled family trip to Oregon when I planned to leave tomorrow?.. So a call to Dynon to see if they have a better probe for the D120 than my original 2009 model. Their tech folks told me they did not. They said they are aware of the problem but they have been putting their efforts into the Skyview latest greatest. Wow and I thought my D100/D120 was the latest greatest. He admitted that they should give us ancient monitor guys a break and come up with a better oil probe especially considering we are going to a competitor to find a solution that in the end at least for me hasn't been very satisfactory. He said they need to get a two wire solution for us D120 folks but can't promise when that will be. He did say he was going to put in a request with the big guys in the front office to turn them loose to fix this but again who knows when that will be........
So short story long ..... Here I sit waiting on a probe instead of excitingly getting all my stuff together for a trip long planned and highly anticipated. But that is the life of an experimenter!!!!!!'!!!!!!!!!'!!!!!!!!!
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