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So, I mentioned briefly in another post that my vacation flight to St. Simons Island became a vacation drive when the electrical system went south (without me!). The symptom was that I was showing now alternator output and the Low Voltage annunciator light and JPI voltage alarm were flashing, and no amount of resetting circuit breakers was helping. My A/P finally diagnosed that the alternator just wasn't generating the correct output, so we sent it back to PlanePower because it should have just still been covered by the 2-year warranty. They came back and said the cause was "oil contamination" and that it wasn't covered under warranty. Has anyone else ever experienced this? My engine has a few very minor slow oil seeps in a couple of places, but "it's no gusher" as my A/P says and in fact never shows any oil on the belly or anywhere else. I'm trying to think what could even be leaking near the alternator to cause this. Anyway, there wasn't much I could argue since they have the unit, and I can't prove or disprove their theory. They gave me a cutrate deal on a new one which will come with a new warranty (unless of course it gets oiled up again!) so I'll be back in the air this weekend. But dang...that was a new one for both me and my A/P.
