I'm now on my third sensor and have only just passed the 180 hour mark. The
replacements cost about 100.00p a time - can anyone source a cheaper, more
reliable replacement?
Roger Anderson G-BXTD
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Watts" <dg.watts@virgin.net>
Subject: Re: oil pressure question...
> I had a similar problem recently and when I discussed it with Skdrive they
> said that the sender was the likely problem.
> I replaced the sender and instantly had stable readings again.
>
> Dave Watts G-BXDY
>
> p.s. It seems after talking to a few others that tese go wrong quite
> regularly and they have all been amazed that we have managed to get 800
> hours out of ours.
>
> >> I recently changed the oil pressure gauge to cure a rapidly fluctuating
> indication (far quicker than the oil pressure could feasibly change). I
now
> have a nice stable reading, excwpt that every so often the needle goes
> off-scale at the high end, then slowly returns to normal. There does not
yet
> seem to be any set of flight conditions or power settings linked to this,
> other than I have only ever seen it after 40 to 50 minutes of flight. This
> is the only instrument that shows a bad reading. My suspicions are with
the
> wiring, and I would like to confirm this by using a DVM around the system.
>
>
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