Misbehaved

Thanks everybody. It was a bad breaker that was the culprit. Once we removed it and got it to trip, it wouldn't reset, something has come apart inside. Thanks to everybody for your responses, your helpfulness is appreciated! TJ

Wowza, yeah that would get your attention, for sure! Glad no damage from it, to you or the plane!

The breaker is that style. I have highlighted it in the picture below (on the 66E, they didn't put the gear breaker up on the panel, at least not on mine). All of the other breakers of that type in my plane pull easily, this one doesn't seem to want to pull at all.

I think there must be something wrong with the circuit breaker. It won't pull. I'm going to have my mechanic come over this weekend to see why the breaker won't pull and figure out why the engage lever doesn't engage the red button (when you push it forward, it does depress the button, but then it comes back up just enough that the button is up again). Thanks for the help, it is appreciated.

That is indeed very helpful information. Thank you!

You would think that it would be in the manual, but it isn't (I attached a picture of everything that the 66/67 E manual gives on the subject). As far as check out, I am just waiting for the checkout pilot's schedule to open up, hopefully in the next couple of weeks, but I like to understand how everything works before I'm in the air with it. So it looks like the only real question then is why the crank engage lever isn't adjusted so that it holds the red button down when the crank is engaged. Thanks for your response.

My 66 E has electric gear. One of the first steps in the emergency gear extension checklist is to pull the landing gear circuit breaker to off. There seem to be two breakers there the black one that I would assume is the pullable one, and the red one. For some reason though, I can't pull the black breaker. Am I misunderstanding this system? Is the engage lever intended to push the red breaker in or something (it doesn't, if I push the engage lever, it comes down and hits the red breaker, but then doesn't sit firmly enough against it to hold it in.) Can someone please explain to me how this is supposed to work? Poor quality picture attached. Thanks for any help. TJ