4 Sierra Tango Building and flying Van's RV-7 N834ST

FADEC

Feb 2005 – Aug 2006 · 19 entries · 78 hours logged

We used Aerosance FADEC for engine control. We figured it would pay for itself eventually!

  1. 2005
  2. February 6 I had ordered the FADEC cabin harness kit a while back from Aerosance with annunciator box for two LED's rather than two incandescent lamps. Unfortunately, I...
  3. February 14 I had ordered the the wrong box and after talking with Aerosance, they said, "Sure, no problem, just send it in, we'll get the right one out to you!" Sweet!
  4. March 6 I had a play with the FADEC stuff too today. I got the new HSA box for incandescent lamps. I wanted to get all the wires routed and connected where I could,...
  5. March 20 I got a 2-10 type On-On-On switch from B & C yesterday, so I mounted that on the switch channel. This will be for the fuel pump. The switch will be wired for...
  6. May 1 I did a bit more wiring today for the FADEC. I spoke to the guys at Aerosance about cutting some of the wires shorter, and they had no problem with it. I als...
  7. June 19 · 3 hours I didn't really spend too much time at the hangar today, due to going out to an Oasis concert last night. It was absolutely great. So, I needed a bit of a li...
  8. June 21 · 2.5 hours I stopped by the hangar tonight on the way home from work. A first for a long time. I had made some wire markers at home last night, so I could finish up the...
  9. June 21 · 2 hoursYeah! I broke 1000 hours today! This evening, the weather was really nice, so I broke out of work a bit earlier to wrap up the FADEC cabin wiring, which includes ECU 2 and the HSA. It all t...
  10. September 2 · 13 hours One of the challenges I decided to take on today was the FADEC engine harness. I was having a spot of trouble trying to figure out how this thing was routed....
  11. September 18 · 10 hours I've also put some more thought into mounting the FADEC ECU's. I decided to turn the units through 90 degrees so that the connector faces to the right side a...
  12. October 2 · 5 hours I didn't get much time today to work on the plane, as we had a BBQ to go to for lunch. Once we were done there, I went to the hangar to work on the FADEC stuff.
  13. October 9 · 8 hours I ordered some fittings from Spruce a while ago, and I thought I'd ordered the wrong size, so I ordered some more. The new ones hadn't arrived yet, so I figu...
  14. November 6 · 12 hours I went to put the correct bolts in the FADEC ECU's today, and found a fatal flaw... I had one of the mounting plates on the wrong way round. "Wrong way round...
  15. 2006
  16. May 4 I still don't have a Serial Bus Controller. Aerosance are between design iterations, and have taken the SBC-100 off the market. After speaking to them yester...
  17. May 11 I've been speaking a lot by e-mail with my buddies in Holland about the SBC controller. There's been talk on various forums, and some information posted in t...
  18. May 16 · 4 hours The SBC-100 arrived from Aart and the PH-VII team in holland on Monday, but I wasn't there to take delivery, so I signed the ticket for them to drop off at m...
  19. May 19 · 2 hours Tonight, I had a little mess around with wiring for the SBC to the EFIS 1. I reconfigured the serial connection from the SL-30 Nav/Comm to go to Serial 2 to...
  20. May 20 · 8 hours I got a shed load of electrical stuff done today, including the FADEC SBC wiring. The notes from the Aerosance knowledge base say to run a ground wire from t...
  21. August 13 · 8 hours For some reason, I've never had my fuel pump warning light come on while we've been running the plane, so I decided I needed to troubleshoot the item today w...