whifof100ll
Well Known Member
Hi All,
My friends RV-7 I regularly fly has failed a magneto (fairly new slick mag).
Unfortunately the airplane will not start on the other mag since it has no impulse coupling. Have narrowed selection down to Pmag or Lightspeed.
We want to replace this mag with EI and keep the other mag. Since the plane is not at it's home AP, time and tools are in short supply. We don't want to invest more money in mags.
I like the easy installation of the Pmag, especially in this situation but worried a little about reliability after reading about Mark C's expert glider landing. I'm hoping they have found the causal mechanism of this failure and ECO'd the product. Any news here? Any other failures?
I've not heard anything but good about the later Lightspeed models, but even the hall effect model looks way harder to install. I think if we were to go this route, I would prefer to borrow an impulse mag to get the plane back to it's home airport and then deal with the install, probably going direct crank sensor.
Is the hall effect sensor a reliability concern?
Anybody with good/bad experiences , news or advice on these two choices?
Regards,
Dale Lambert
RV-6 finishing kit
RV-7 maintenace boy and pilot.
My friends RV-7 I regularly fly has failed a magneto (fairly new slick mag).
Unfortunately the airplane will not start on the other mag since it has no impulse coupling. Have narrowed selection down to Pmag or Lightspeed.
We want to replace this mag with EI and keep the other mag. Since the plane is not at it's home AP, time and tools are in short supply. We don't want to invest more money in mags.
I like the easy installation of the Pmag, especially in this situation but worried a little about reliability after reading about Mark C's expert glider landing. I'm hoping they have found the causal mechanism of this failure and ECO'd the product. Any news here? Any other failures?
I've not heard anything but good about the later Lightspeed models, but even the hall effect model looks way harder to install. I think if we were to go this route, I would prefer to borrow an impulse mag to get the plane back to it's home airport and then deal with the install, probably going direct crank sensor.
Is the hall effect sensor a reliability concern?
Anybody with good/bad experiences , news or advice on these two choices?
Regards,
Dale Lambert
RV-6 finishing kit
RV-7 maintenace boy and pilot.