Jim Peace Posted June 22, 2020 Report Posted June 22, 2020 Can anyone recommend a good shop in east central Florida for avionics or electrical work that is not in Daytona !! Jim Quote
carusoam Posted June 23, 2020 Report Posted June 23, 2020 Jim, What kind of work are you looking to get done? Full Dynon panel, Garmin G3X, or troubleshooting what you have? Best regards, -a- Quote
Jim Peace Posted June 23, 2020 Author Report Posted June 23, 2020 On 6/23/2020 at 6:19 AM, carusoam said: Jim, What kind of work are you looking to get done? Full Dynon panel, Garmin G3X, or troubleshooting what you have? Best regards, -a- Expand I have it taken care of....my friend who is a master electrician, A&P will fix the stuff wrong with my plane since a major avionics installation 2 years ago...plus he will fix 2 items that have not been working correctly on my plane since it got out of a $10,000 annual almost 2 months ago Expensive convenient mx does not mean quality work..... 2 Quote
Mark605 Posted July 8, 2020 Report Posted July 8, 2020 On 6/22/2020 at 2:55 PM, Jim Peace said: Can anyone recommend a good shop in east central Florida for avionics or electrical work that is not in Daytona !! Jim Expand Did you have a less than optimum experience with an avionics shop in Daytona? If so care to say which one, and what happened? Quote
Jim Peace Posted July 8, 2020 Author Report Posted July 8, 2020 On 7/8/2020 at 12:32 AM, Mark605 said: Did you have a less than optimum experience with an avionics shop in Daytona? If so care to say which one, and what happened? Expand dont want to share anything yet as it is still to recent and I have been on the road for weeks...I understand there is a refund check waiting for me at home I want to cash first.... I may not bring this up again.....Things got out of control one day with me and I let loose on them, stuff I wanted to say for a while....they gave me a very embarrassing day in front of a friend and also messed up two basic service requests they had weeks to rectify but chose not to.....one would have been super deadly.....I got lucky and lived to fly another day..... The immediate change in my policy is that my plane will not be cowled up after a mx event until I preflight the engine compartment myself. Am I an A&P?,,,no but I would have found the issue I had because I always look for what is obviously wrong.....and it was a big no no... As far as avionics issue, more like an electrical issue I have changed out my battery master and the battery relay will be done next week. I would like to know if there is something else between the relay and the buss bar and if the buss bar itself could be changed.....my drawings are at home and I am across the pond...my issue was and still may be that when the master is turned on, nothing happened....just a cold airplane with no relay sounds etc....it may have been the master but I am going to change everything....I have an open checkbook policy my landing gear was fixed with a quick call to LASAR and a master A&P doing the work.... Quote
Jim Peace Posted July 8, 2020 Author Report Posted July 8, 2020 On 7/8/2020 at 3:18 AM, chriscalandro said: Shunt. Expand would that be intermittent? Quote
Bunti Posted July 8, 2020 Report Posted July 8, 2020 My shunt broke a while ago into two pieces. This gave me on one of the break in flights for my overhauled engine all kinds of error messages on my EDM930. Including EGT and CHT signal failures and for sure a very high amps reading which finally changed to a red X. I did not continue this flight to the destination and did a precautionary landing. Reason for the problem was that the shunt screws had been improper installed. I bought a new shunt. It was installed properly and all readings are back in the green. 1 Quote
LANCECASPER Posted July 8, 2020 Report Posted July 8, 2020 On 7/8/2020 at 2:46 AM, Jim Peace said: my issue was and still may be that when the master is turned on, nothing happened....just a cold airplane with no relay sounds etc....it may have been the master but I am going to change everything....I have an open checkbook policy Expand It may not be good to change everything until you identify what's wrong. You can't trace your steps backwards if you get done and it still doesn't work. I have an "if it's not broke don't fix it" policy since sometimes when I thought I was doing a good thing I got a new part out of the box that was defective and it took a lot of work to figure that out. Quote
Jim Peace Posted July 8, 2020 Author Report Posted July 8, 2020 On 7/8/2020 at 4:26 PM, LANCECASPER said: It may not be good to change everything until you identify what's wrong. You can't trace your steps backwards if you get done and it still doesn't work. I have an "if it's not broke don't fix it" policy since sometimes when I thought I was doing a good thing I got a new part out of the box that was defective and it took a lot of work to figure that out. Expand yes I get it...the infant mortality stuff etc etc....just trying to do everything I can for close to 100% dispatch reliability..... I am already wondering about changing the battery relay...I read about so many failures in new ones...the reviews are awful...I will carry around my old one just in case Why cant the USA produce a battery relay that works for a long time. Quote
bradp Posted July 9, 2020 Report Posted July 9, 2020 Saint & boxwell are additional Florida options - known Internet forum entities. Quote
Andy95W Posted July 9, 2020 Report Posted July 9, 2020 On 7/8/2020 at 5:12 PM, Jim Peace said: Why cant the USA produce a battery relay that works for a long time. Expand They can, the Cutler Hammers that were original generally last decades and thousands of hours. Problem is, they cost $400 or more. Quote
Jim Peace Posted July 9, 2020 Author Report Posted July 9, 2020 On 7/9/2020 at 3:50 PM, Andy95W said: They can, the Cutler Hammers that were original generally last decades and thousands of hours. Problem is, they cost $400 or more. Expand cant find one......have a link? Quote
Andy95W Posted July 10, 2020 Report Posted July 10, 2020 In 2002 I bought one from LASAR. It was the standard Mooney part, hopefully they're still available. Let us know! Quote
Mark605 Posted July 10, 2020 Report Posted July 10, 2020 On 7/9/2020 at 1:12 PM, bradp said: Saint & boxwell are additional Florida options - known Internet forum entities. Expand Saint and Boxwell sounds like a new buddy detective show coming soon to CBS. 2 Quote
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