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My Airplane Projects
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Date: 1-20-2011
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Number of Hours: 5.00
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Brief Description: Added ground wire, prepped for inspection.
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Put a 100 ohm resister across the fuel sensor wire to airframe ground. The Dynon read out a new number, rather than the constant 500 of yesterday. That narrowed the problem down to the tank ground or the sensor itself. Added a ground wire from one of the mounting screws to the tank mounting bolt down in the left hand corner. Problem solved! Van's needs to incorporate this ground wire into the plans. I'll suggest it.
Drained the 10 gallons of gas that I put in the tank yesterday. Ran the Dynon calibration procedure, adding 2 gallons at a time. At 18 and 20 gallons no added fuel was senesed by the sensor. Completed to fill the tank as instucted in the Dynon manual. When complete. the gauge only shows 16 gallons. Thought maybe this was due to me not forming the float arm correctly, but then looked back at the Van's instructions for the calibration. In there, they say to only go to 16 gallons, not a 20 gallon fill. Curious. Instructions could use some clarifications. More research on this in future.
Applied the N number decals to make the plane legal for tomorrow's inspection.
Removed the top cowl, disconnected the CarbMate, installed the pitot tube, and began installing the spinner, all in prep for the inspection.
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Fuel tank ground.
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Spinner and pitot.
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Numbers
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