Austintatious Posted August 1, 2020 Report Posted August 1, 2020 Ok, so one of my rockets is going down for annual next month... Both mags are just over 500 hours. What I was thinking is rather than pay to have them taken off and have them IRAN-ed/serviced.... I would like to rob one of the low time mags off the other aircraft and put it on the one going to annual and at the same time put a Surefly Emag on both of them... What I do not know is if the left/ right mags are the same... And since the e mag goes on the starting mag, they would need to be interchangeable. Is this possible?
jetdriven Posted August 1, 2020 Report Posted August 1, 2020 are the engines the same? Generally, the left magneto has an impulse coupler which fires while cranking.
Guest Posted August 1, 2020 Report Posted August 1, 2020 Typically TSIO 520NB engines used a pair of Slick 6320 mags, both were impulsed. Clarence
carusoam Posted August 2, 2020 Report Posted August 2, 2020 S.l.o.w. down a minute... I think we might be talking some more basic, less technical... 1) If I had two mags on my plane coming up on 500 hours... 2) I want to get them on a different glide path... 3) Some people want to avoid having both mags going over 500hrs at the same time... 4) And... they don’t want to have them vying for infant death syndrome at the same time either... 5) Then the OP dropped the words Emag in there somewhere... which is an unproven nice to have thing... that could have great results of neither infant mortality or shortened life expectancy... 6) Left and Right mags are technically different... so no swapping lefts for rights... 7) Sounds like Emags go on the left side for starting... limiting the initial flexibility that was thought of... 8) Swapping mags around between two planes is going to do what... add additional maintenance induced failure opportunities... 9) Knowing all this... is there any upside left? 10) I’m more of a swap one mag at a time kinda person... 11) Some emags have had a few installation challenges on day one... it either worked or didn't work right... I don’t recall any infant mortality mentions around here for emags... Back to the OP for more information... PP thoughts only, trying to work out the logic... Best regards, -a-
Austintatious Posted August 2, 2020 Author Report Posted August 2, 2020 8 hours ago, carusoam said: S.l.o.w. down a minute... I think we might be talking some more basic, less technical... 1) If I had two mags on my plane coming up on 500 hours... 2) I want to get them on a different glide path... 3) Some people want to avoid having both mags going over 500hrs at the same time... 4) And... they don’t want to have them vying for infant death syndrome at the same time either... 5) Then the OP dropped the words Emag in there somewhere... which is an unproven nice to have thing... that could have great results of neither infant mortality or shortened life expectancy... 6) Left and Right mags are technically different... so no swapping lefts for rights... 7) Sounds like Emags go on the left side for starting... limiting the initial flexibility that was thought of... 8) Swapping mags around between two planes is going to do what... add additional maintenance induced failure opportunities... 9) Knowing all this... is there any upside left? 10) I’m more of a swap one mag at a time kinda person... 11) Some emags have had a few installation challenges on day one... it either worked or didn't work right... I don’t recall any infant mortality mentions around here for emags... Back to the OP for more information... PP thoughts only, trying to work out the logic... Best regards, -a- All good talking points. So, both aircraft have mags on the same "glide path"... upgradeing both to 1 emag would change that for sure. I dont think there is any increased risk of maintinance induced failure. 1 aircraft is having both mags removed reguardless of what I do. For the other the risk is argueably higher, but risk for r&r for an emag upgrade on one of the mags should be minimal. The upside I see is that if I can do this, i put future mag work way down the road on both aircraft while upgrading to emags with some of the money I would be spending on older style mags. 1
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