https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/Recent content in FADEC on 4 Sierra TangoHugoen-USSun, 13 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0400https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-02-06/Sun, 06 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0500https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-02-06/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…https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-02-14/Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0500https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-02-14/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!https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-03-06/Sun, 06 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0500https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-03-06/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,…https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-03-20/Sun, 20 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0500https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-03-20/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…https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-05-01/Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-05-01/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…https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-06-19/Sun, 19 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0400https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-06-19/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…https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-06-21/Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0400https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-06-21/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…https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-06-21-2/Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0400https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-06-21-2/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…https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-09-02/Fri, 02 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0400https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-09-02/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….https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-09-18/Sun, 18 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0400https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-09-18/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…https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-10-02/Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0400https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-10-02/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.https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-10-09/Sun, 09 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0400https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-10-09/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…https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-11-06/Sun, 06 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0500https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2005-11-06/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…https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2006-05-04/Thu, 04 May 2006 00:00:00 -0400https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2006-05-04/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…https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2006-05-11/Thu, 11 May 2006 00:00:00 -0400https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2006-05-11/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…https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2006-05-16/Tue, 16 May 2006 00:00:00 -0400https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2006-05-16/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…https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2006-05-19/Fri, 19 May 2006 00:00:00 -0400https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2006-05-19/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…https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2006-05-20/Sat, 20 May 2006 00:00:00 -0400https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2006-05-20/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…https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2006-08-13/Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0400https://www.4sierratango.com/build/fadec/2006-08-13/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…