REFLECTOR: Emag/Pmag Reliability?

[Scott Derrick]

Oh,  last I heard from Marc was he was still using the EMag and testing 
the latest rev????

I posted a request for his status on the list a while back and I never 
saw a response.

Scott

Paul W. Krasa wrote:
> Send an Email to Marc Z. on the Cozy builders group.  He has extensive 
> experience with E/Pmag.  In the end, he had tested multiple versions 
> and found them unreliable and re-installed a Slick mag.
>
> See the Cozy archives@ http://www.cozybuilders.org/
>
> Paul
> Long EZ 214LP
>
>
> At 09:22 AM 1/25/2006, you wrote:
>> Ron,
>>
>> I was hoping somebody with PMag experience would answer your thread.
>>
>> I waiting for the 6 cylinder model to come out and I understand they 
>> delayed working on that until they felt they had a bullet proof 4 
>> cylinder model.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> Ron Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I am a EAA Technical Counselor for our EAA chapter.  One of our 
>>> members is building an RV-9 and had planned to use Pmags.  I told 
>>> him that I thought they were still having some reliability 
>>> problems.  Any updates from any of you using the Emag/Pmag?
>>>
>>> He ran across the below note from Nick Ugolini, a LongEZ flyer.
>>>
>>> Dear E-MAG,
>>>
>>> After uneventful three hour cross country flight, my engine quit and 
>>> would not restart while taxing to the hangar.  The Lycoming engine 
>>> has a Lightspeed Electronic Ignition and a backup P-MAG for ignition.
>>> When tracking down the problem, I discovered I had wired both the 
>>> P-MAG and the Lightspeed to a shared common negative ground point.
>>> The ground connection was corroded thus allowing no ships power to 
>>> flow to either ignition system.
>>>
>>> After reflecting on my trip, I realized that at some point in the 
>>> flight the power had simultaneously failed to both ignition systems.
>>> I had flown at least two hours completely unaware the P-Mag was my 
>>> only source of ignition. Unlike the roughness of my previous 
>>> magneto, the P-MAG causes no change in smoothness or sense of lost 
>>> power.  The engine quit only after the engine rpm was reduced to a 
>>> point where the P-MAG could no longer supply its own internal power 
>>> (per design).
>>>
>>> With absolute certainty, I fully credit your P-MAG for saving my 
>>> plane and most likely my life.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Nick Ugolini
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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