REFLECTOR: Gear warning horn

[Alex Balic]

I think Al's point about the horn is that since he is using water cooled,
there will be times when he is just letting down (quickly) from altitude,
and has the ability to close the throttle all of the way and point the nose
down to get down- not necessarily for landing- perhaps in the middle of
flight, and doesn't want the gear horn to be yelling at him as he descends
from 12k to 4k.... - could have a "silence" button that resets when the
throttle moves off of closed though.......

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org]On
Behalf Of Scott Derrick
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 8:56 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Gear warning horn


Al,

I don't understand your reluctance to putting the gear up warning mico
switch on your throttle?  Whether your air cooled , water cooled or use
dylithium crystles,  you gonna have the throttle near closed in 99% of the
cases when on final.

My up&locked nose gear micro is triggered by the gear door actuator.  If
the nose doors are up, the nose gear has to be?.

Scott

At 04:45 PM 9/8/2004, you wrote:
>The normal approach for wiring the gear warning horn is a low throttle
>position switch.  Having a liquid cooled engine, I think I may be less
>reluctant than otherwise to pull the throttle all the way back for slowing
>and descending when I have no intention of landing; and having the
>annoyance of having to reset the gear horn.
>
>I have an 'airspeed switch' to prevent gear up while on the ground; so I'm
>thinking of using a double throw relay circuit that activates the warning
>horn at the speed the air speed switch opens.  Then set that for a tad
>above final approach speed; and horn sounds if gear is not down.
>
>Is this re-invention of the wheel, or maybe not a good idea; or trading
>one set of annoyances for another.
>
>And while I'm at it; what's a good location for "Up and Locked" switch on
>the nose gear?
>
>Al
>
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