Ooohhhhhh, it's that simple...???
Regards Gert
Gert Dalgaard Soerensen
Europa builder No. 151
Europa Classic / Rotax 914
AC reg.: OY-GDS
E mail: lgds@post6.tele.dk
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mandag 23. jun 2003 kl. 17:18 skrev Neville Eyre:
> <Neville@europa-aircraft.com>
>
> Hi All,
> All the people involved with electricity over the years have got it
> wrong....Faraday... Ohm... Voltair...Watt etc have got it wrong.
> Electricity is purely high pressure smoke....batteries come filled
> with the high pressure smoke, and whatever is connected to it will
> function.....
> If the smoke is allowed to escape from the wires....... they stop
> working...a fact that cannot be argued with?
>
>>>> <DJA727@aol.com> 06/22/03 06:19pm >>>
>
> In a message dated 6/22/2003 9:58:14 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> fillinger@ameritech.net writes:
>
>> My only question is if the alternator or regulator fails, AND there's
>> the smell of smoke and abnormal readings on amps/volts, one should
>> disconnect the battery at the battery relay, not just disconnect the
>> alternator and wait to see if the smoke goes away. What then will
>> cause
>> the engine to continue to run? If one doesn't have a relay, and the
>> smoke is electrical but no circuit protector pops, there's no way to
>> stop the smoke without waiting for the battery to discharge or a
>> necessary circuit to go open through heating. Then the engine quits.
>>
>
> Fred,
>
> I have designed mine with a rather complicated arrangement of busses,
> and I
> have my pumps on a "hot" bus for each of two electrical systems. In
> the event
> of electrical smoke/fire -- the procedure is to shut down the
> electrical
> system, except for the fuel pumps. The hot busses are protected by
> slow blow fuses.
> I would be able to get rid of everything except the pumps in the event
> of an
> electrical fire, and not lose the engine at the same time. I suppose I
> got
> carried away with all this, but I have to keep my mind working on an
> involved
> electrical system reminiscent of the Boeing days.
>
> Dave
>
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