Anyone Know What This Does?

[Marauder]

Helping out a friend and found a switch with no explanation what it does? It is connected to the gear switch and it is a push button.





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[Marauder]

Attached to the gear switch



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[Marauder]

He has the standard override.



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[mooniac15u]

Landing gear safety switch override?

edit: you beat me to it. 

[mooniac15u]

Is it just getting power from the gear switch?  What is connected to the other wire?

[Marauder]

Is it just getting power from the gear switch?  What is connected to the other wire?

Landing gear safety switch override?

edit: you beat me to it. 

Can't tell where the other end goes. Buried in the bowels of the panel.

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[mooniac15u]

I see your friend has a KR 87.  My KR 87 is wired with a remote flight timer reset button.  Could it be that?

[PTK]

28 minutes ago, Marauder said:

 

Can't tell where the other end goes. Buried in the bowels of the panel.

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Bowel movement safety overide switch. Comes in handy on long flights. Does it by any chance also have long range tanks? They go together..,parts of same mod.  

[Marauder]

I see your friend has a KR 87.  My KR 87 is wired with a remote flight timer reset button.  Could it be that?

Not sure. It is on the same side as the ADF. And the wire is headed in that direction.

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[Guest]

That's the famous "What's it for" translated from the German "Wus is dus"

Looks like a bit of time with a multimeter is in order.  Any avionics wiring diagrams with the plane?

Clarence

[jetdriven]

I ran a wire from the gear switch to the davtron clock so it indicates an approximation of flight time....it counts when the gear handle is up..

Edited December 11, 2016 by jetdriven

[kerry]

I put a push button switch like that in my open cockpit.  It's hooked to my intercom.  If I turn the squelch off then I can communicate with my passenger by pushing the button.  Like a walkie talkie.

[Andy95W]

Just label it "Ejector Seat".  People will stop asking questions and nobody will push it.

[carusoam]

It is so close to the intercom, I assumed it was a push to talk switch...

This would only make sense if the previous yokes weren't wired for PTT switches.

Best regards,

-a-

[Yetti]

Weapons selector Button.

[Hank]

Label it "Wing Falls Off" and no one will touch it!

[Marauder]

It is so close to the intercom, I assumed it was a push to talk switch...
This would only make sense if the previous yokes weren't wired for PTT switches.
Best regards,
-a-

We know it isn't that. There is a button on the co-pilot's yoke.


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[Marauder]

Just label it "Ejector Seat".  People will stop asking questions and nobody will push it.

Good one Andy! I'm already to press it knowing it is attached to the landing gear switch.


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[Marauder]

I believe that his Mooney was once used by James Bond and as such this is the passenger "eject" switch.  

Nope. Seat didn't eject. Could be faulty ejector seat.


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[Marauder]

Label it "Wing Falls Off" and no one will touch it!

Nope. Wings stayed on. But we did hear noises when we pushed it.


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[Marauder]

Weapons selector Button.

Just like the button we have on our 75 yokes?


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[N201MKTurbo]

Call the previous owner and ask him.

[Marauder]

We will report back after more experimenting, but I think the timer angle might be what it is. He has both the KR unit that was mentioned above and a Davtron digital clock.


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[Marauder]

Call the previous owner and ask him.

Not an option.


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[Marauder]

Have you taken out the safety pins?

Ah, could very well be the problem. Whatever it is, it wasn't wired very well. The wire is just draped across the electronics.


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