REFLECTOR: Ever had one of those days? - Fight RG electrical problem

[Geoff Gerhardt]

Someone on the Reflector passed my email onto Wayne Lanza of Composite
Design.  He emailed me promptly and I'm going to talk to him tomorrow to
get this sorted out.  Whoever passed my email onto Wayne, thanks!

Geoff

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Scott Derrick <scott at tnstaafl.net> wrote:

> Geoff,
>
> Yeah, I've ran into some poor assembly/quality issues with the Composite
> design stuff. Both the gear indicator/control unit and the breaker/switch
> unit. I gave up complaining long ago, sortuv! :-)
>
> I've resoldered the gear unit. It's either fix it yourself , make your own
> or buy somebody else's.
>
> Hopefully he situation is fixed for new buyers. At the time the factory
> wasn't interested in hearing about my problems with The CD hardware.
>
> Scott
>
>
> Geoff Gerhardt <geoff at thegerhardts.com> wrote:
>
> Finally, over Christmas/New Years, I took the week off hoping to get a few
> contiguous days at the hangar and make some real progress.  I was getting a
> lot of work done until yesterday when I found a problem with my RG system
> that has me pulling my hair out.  Its a rather strange one.  My gear cycles
> fine when actuated.  Two green lights when down and locked.  But, the RG
> manual indicates that the AMBER light should be illuminated when the pump
> motor is running, and the RED light is the "gear unsafe" indicator.  On
> mine, its the opposite - the RED light comes on when the pump is running,
> and the AMBER light when the gear is unsafe.  After a lot of head
> scratching, I pulled the switch panel out and inspected where the wires
> went - the schematic indicates that the BRN and RED wires should go to the
> RED light - on mine they go to the AMBER light.  The ORANGE wire goes to
> the RED light (gear pump on), not the AMBER light as indicated in the
> schematic.
>
> On top of this, when I press the "TEST" button, nothing happens - no
> lights illuminate.  I traced that switch function back to the control box,
> and when I press the TEST button, contact is made to the appropriate
> circuit in the control box.  And, on top of all that, in the gear up
> position, the AMBER light (my gear unsafe light) stays illuminated even
> though the MG/NG micro switches are closed and the throttle position
> microswitch is open (all indicating gear safe).
>
> I've been pulling my hair out for about 6 hrs on this and can not figure
> it out.  Have any of you had a squirrely problem like this with the RG
> electrics?  Does anybody else have reversed gear motor on/gear unsafe
> lights?
>
> I have the factory "Composite Design" turnkey RG system.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Geoff
>
>
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