Thedude

How long ago was that?

I need this, my J needs left rudder while cruising to stay coordinated, but then banks left pretty quickly, but I'm on the west coast...

Looks like I have a plane power 10-1050-1 alternator and a plane power r1224 VR that were both installed in 2021. I need to do some reading on what I can configure.

I believe this is the voltage regulator, (fortunately have photos from my last oil change) which is a plane power, I need to find details about the alternator, but I believe it's also a plane power. Looking back at my old photos, I guess even when I got the plane a year ago it was reading 13.2. I'm not sure why more recently it was reading 13.8 just before the annual, maybe something finicky with the wiring. At startup and through runup right now the voltage reads above 13.8, it's just in cruise it seems to be lower than what I used to see, but the same as what I saw when I first bought it a year ago... I guess I should have been paying more attention. Changing load in flight doesn't seem to affect the reading.

I have a 79 J model and I got my plane back from annual at the beginning of this month. Nothing with the electrical system was touched, but I've noticed in cruise that my bus voltage is around 13.2 rather than 13.8, which is what I used to see while in cruise. Everything seems to be working fine, but I'm not sure why the bus voltage is so different and if I need to be concerned about something. The battery is a Concorde that I replaced about a 10 months ago at this point.

CPI measures a lot of things that may be skewing it. In my personal experience, there is currently very noticeable inflation for day to day life.

I took my plane in for my first annual and the shop said the lower mounting bracket on the dual mag was missing. Terrifying thought.

I'm based on KSBP, I didn't realize they limited transient parking time now, that's really frustrating. There have been a number of changes going on here and there's so much more big private traffic now (where the hell are all these gulfstreams and challengers coming from??), I have to assume that's why aci thinks they can charge on arm and a leg.

Even on $200k planes, an extra $6k a year isn't making sense imo.

Ya this is a very steep insurance policy into a business that could entirely possibly disappear in a couple of years (because that's just how things work with such a small market base).

Huh I thought them being different was normal, but I guess not...

I went to artcraft in smx earlier this year. I had a vague idea for what I wanted and they did a great job. Part of the time was in dealing with some light hail dents. It took two months, and I think they were maybe a week or two over the expected time. They accomadated me dropping in randomly and were quick to answer questions. On pickup I noticed they mounted one of the main brake lines different than the other, not sure if it would have been an issue, they also painted over the static system drain buttons under the plane, but I'm glad I checked everything thoroughly and they fixed all the issues quickly. I'd highly recommend going to them.

I just sent mine to aero accessories based on what I've been reading here. I get my plane back on Monday, so we'll see how it goes. http://aeroacc-vny.com/

I think that would work perfect, but my system is a 12v. Thank you for the offer though

I appreciate that, those are the photos I was able to take by squeezing my camera between the glare shield and the panel.

I have a g500txi with Garmin eis and no vacuum pump, so I think I have everything covered except gear.

I'm pretty sure that's who I contacted, it's $250 to bench test it and that's waved if I accept the repairs, but honestly I just don't want the downtime to deal with this thing more than I have to because I don't have a good mechanic at my field atm, that's why I was wondering if there was just something dead simple I could replace it with to avoid any future issues with it. Does anyone know if it's necessary for flight? Can I pull it out and rely on the floor indicator while it's being serviced -- I don't like that idea, just curious.

Ya I think I only see any reading on my CO monitor when I'm on the ground with the door open, and that I think maxes out around 5-8.

You don't happen to have a full list of mods do you?... How did a new windshield help?

The only thing I use mine for are the gear related annunciators. I have a g500txi with eis and so vaccuum, so I don't think there's anything on there that matters too much other than the gear related ones. What are the Eaton annunciators?

A couple months back I was having issues with my gear warning breaker popping during actuation and I started fiddling around with my annunciator panel out of curiosity. I didn't disconnect anything, but I took the face plate off and moved it around before putting it back together. Somehow that fixed the gear warning C/B popping (so something was shorting out before) and the test button fell off because the solder was apparently worn out at this point. I can pull it out and get it serviced, but I'm wondering if there's something simpler I can replace it with. Is it just a panel of lights? It seems like a big box just to do that, but ideally I could put something with LEDs in there and never have to worry about bulbs. It's an IAI panel, model number A8/1000H.

I would very much like to know more about this.

Thanks for the very detailed updated, but how did this ever work in the first place?

I just dropped my plane off at Barber aviation at KMAE at the recommendation of a friend that owns a bonanza. I'll have to report back on how it goes, he says they do great work, just not fast work, so we'll see. The owner/AP seems like a good guy though and they have a decent sized space.

From what you're saying, why would someone own a Mooney over an RV 10? I love my J, but you're going faster than my J (I only get 150 ktas rn) for close fuel burn (probably 10.9ish) and there's less complexity and lower insurance cost with fixed gear.