What happened?
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What happened?
What finally happened to the voltage regulator/generator thread? Among all the sniping there was some good information. It's really too bad and a bit pathetic that people can't discuss regulations or technical information in this forum without it eventually breaking down into a mess.
Re: What happened?
Civility throughout society in general is on a downward spiral. However while it seems to be rampant, there are only a handful of posters on this site that are permanently locked in attack mode.CID wrote:What finally happened to the voltage regulator/generator thread? Among all the sniping there was some good information. It's really too bad and a bit pathetic that people can't discuss regulations or technical information in this forum without it eventually breaking down into a mess.
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Based on the information in the Generator posts I did some more looking and found that Piper issued a SB (No 836 - which it considered mandatory), to replace the aluminum wiring in the starting and charging/ground circuit in a wide range of its aircraft in 1986. Too date I have not found one related to Cessna Aircraft
http://univairparts.com/bulletin_direct ... 00836A.pdf
The SB indicates the issue is with connections rather than the wire itself. It postulated that poor connections can result in corrosion and heat generation. I suspect that since aluminum melts at slightly more that half the temperature of copper, they decided to hedge their bets and mandate copper as being able to handle the heat of poor connections better than copper. It also mandates the use of specific connectors when making the change and while there are no details, I bet they are, as you say, compatible for copper to copper and/or copper to steel connections.
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That's correct. I actually replaced the stuff myself IAW that Piper SB. Piper chose to deal with the maintenance problem associated with aluminum wire connections by standardizing.
Piper owners will tell you that their airplanes started better after. It's true! That's because they used the same guage instead of the equivalent copper guage. The new wire was heavier but not really significant for these little airplanes.
If you look you may find the service memo that came a couple of years later cautioning repair stations to follow the SB carefully and NOT use the same hardware.
Piper owners will tell you that their airplanes started better after. It's true! That's because they used the same guage instead of the equivalent copper guage. The new wire was heavier but not really significant for these little airplanes.
If you look you may find the service memo that came a couple of years later cautioning repair stations to follow the SB carefully and NOT use the same hardware.
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Re: What happened?
Just google 'avcanda voltage regulator/generator' and you'll find your thread. . .
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Interesting... usually when a thread is disappeared, when you find the ghost of it via Google, when you click on the link, you get a "you are not authorized to view this page" type message.bizjets101 wrote:Just google...
With this one, you can even find it in the AvCanada search function. I guess there are different levels of erasing?
