NOT my area of knowledge, but recently I had the pleasure of looking at a good friends RV10 for another reason. He has these little servo gizmos for the heater boxes and the oil cooler shutter. Really cool idea.
The discussion came around to a failure they had on one box where it failed in the open position allowing ALOT of heat in the cabin. Ok, easily fixed. He has this same servo gizmo on the oil cooler shutter to help regulate oil temp. I asked, "what if the gizmo failed in the closed position?" Oil temps probably would get excessive and you may not be able to get down before some sort of overheat issue occured. I asked if he had a manual overide, like a push/pull cable on it. Nope---
It got me thinking---might be a good idea to have some sort of override---just in case.
Tom
The discussion came around to a failure they had on one box where it failed in the open position allowing ALOT of heat in the cabin. Ok, easily fixed. He has this same servo gizmo on the oil cooler shutter to help regulate oil temp. I asked, "what if the gizmo failed in the closed position?" Oil temps probably would get excessive and you may not be able to get down before some sort of overheat issue occured. I asked if he had a manual overide, like a push/pull cable on it. Nope---
It got me thinking---might be a good idea to have some sort of override---just in case.
Tom