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Belated note: Aircraft Supply now shows double the price, making it comparable to other suppliers. But I got the print copy of Aircraft Spruce's catalog (printed sometime last year) and it shows the price for that alternator conversion at half the amount it is now. That is one hell of an...

Finished wrapping the control wheels a couple weeks ago. This is what the final result looks like.

Sight seeing?

https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/403643

This is the story I saw: https://www.newsweek.com/oshkosh-plane-crash-oshkosh-air-show-wisconsin-eaa-1928718

Here's one guy's debrief on what he believes happened.

These all appear to my layman eyes to be the same generator to alternator upgrades but the price differential between Aircraft Supply and the other two retailers is simply too large for me to believe they are selling the same thing...

Always kind of neat, in my opinion.

Some thoughts: Counterfeit auto parts are a fairly lucrative target market if my searches on "counterfeit auto parts accident statistics" are any indication. All the articles warn of their dangers, at least one claiming an epidemic of accidents, but did not provide a source for that claim and I...

Just a followup: I've got several changes in the works for the plane now and decided to order leather covers with PTT buttons stitched in. I need to have the PTT wired into the system but while waiting to have that done I took a try at attaching one of the covers to the copilot side to see how...

Good to see it arrived safely. I see they put the wheel pants/fairings on!

The C-A150L has this placard in it.

Recent video of a multi-vortices tornado near Greenfield Iowa that suffered heavy damage and fatalities from a tornado (not sure if it was caused by the one in the video.) Audio is distracting IMHO.

Looks like it may be visible in the northern states tonight: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental

Would be more authentic if another chair is attached on either side that contain mannequins that hog the armrests and otherwise intrude on your space.

Belated report on the bus voltage reported by the uAvionix AV-30: it appears it is reporting about 0.5 to 0.6V low. My multimeter shows that much higher when measuring at various points behind the instrument panel and at the cigarette lighter.

The regulator arrived this morning and was already installed and tested by the time I saw your post. The mechanic said the old regulator was only delivering 12V or so. I had already agreed with him on replacing with the solid state regulator rather than adjust or repair the mechanical one. The...

Late follow-up: No parasitic drain detected on the battery. After the charger reported it was fully charged I disconnected it and a multimeter measured 13.23V across the battery terminals (not considered valid meaurement for various reasons, but decided to do it anyway.) Fifteen hours later it...

Haven't had a chance to test for parasitic current drain yet, but while waiting for the charger to arrive I've been curious about the generator and regulator systems. I ran across this nicely done tutorial on Youtube on how vibrating point regulators work: