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The cowl flaps motor is attached to a small gear box that rotates a shaft that moves the cowl flaps. If the motor is running and the flaps are not moving, the shaft has probably sheared.

Check the ground hook up from the battery to the aircraft. I had similar problem caused by the connection to the aircraft from the ground side of the battery.

There is a bulletin about this problem: SERVICE INSTRUCTION SIM20-124A

Electric Rudder Trim may be slipping.

I have all the senders from Cies conversion and there free, you pay shipping. Just fly over and. pick them up.

If you find the coupler is bad, get a replacement from BC. They are more robust than others.

Problem detected. The Slave/Free switch not making good contact when set to slave. Deoxit seems to be the answer. Haven't touched this switch ever. I guess corrosion has set in.

Have a 2004 Mooney Ovation DX 2. Lost all heading information. Where is the Magnetrometer located? No recent work done on airplane so no idea what happened.

I have had buttons not working properly on Garmin 530w and sprayed Deoxit on them and worked buttons a few times, problem solved.

When flying an RNAV approach with autopilot (King 225) in APP mode, after passing INF the APP button will begin to flash. I push it two times and it then captures the GS. When my Garmin 530 was updated to WASS they had to add a wire from the autopilot directly to the back of the 530. Before they added the wire I could not capture the GS.

In a FIKI Mooney the full heat requires the plane to be in flight. Simuulate flight by putting a hose on pitot tube and squeeze it slightly until your airspeed indicator moves up to about 70 knots. Then your stall vain and pitot should get very hot.

If it happens to be the relay, new relays are available from Peerless Electronics on L.I. Available and much less expensive than from Mooney. 2 years ago about $450 They are made in Germany and are exact replacements.

A rectifier between positive terminal and ground at the alternator. This will ground the spike that occurs when you turn off the Alt field circuit.

I had the same problem on 2003 Olvation when I upgraded to WASS. Initially the extra wire from the KING 225 the autopilot was not added. When that was corrected I found that if I waited to hit approach mode after being aligned on final the autopilot would capture the GS. It was not necessary to make any other inputs to 530. I later found that if I activated the approach mode too early, the approach mode button on the 225 would begin to flash when when it saw the GS and I could just press the Approach button again and it would capture the GS. I have never had to enable autopilot outputs on the 530 to fly GPS approaches.

I had the same problem with my 2003 Ovation. I sent the box in the tail and the dimmer control box to Kenneth at International Avionics in Texas and he was able to fix the dimmer control box by replacing the two dimmer rheostats. He tested everything and returned it for$600, It works perfect now,