steve(at)tomasara.com
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 Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject: E-Mag P-Mag Safety info - Well reasoned followup part1 |
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Although there have been (as one would expect) a variety of replies to
Marc Z's posting on canard-aviators, they were not (my opinion)
informative to the same degree that would prompt me to cross-post.
However, a posting today by Nick U. (another source that over the time I
have been on canard-aviators has struck me as particularly credible) did
seem so worthy. I do not anticipate any need to keep people abreast of
any more messages on Canard-aviators beyond the posting from Nick U.
For those with a particular interest in following the discussion as it
continues to develop on this subject please follow it directly at the
source: canard-aviators on groups.yahoo.com.
Steve Stearns
Boulder/Longmont, Colorado
CSA,EAA,IAC,AOPA,PE,ARRL,BARC (but ignorant none-the-less)
Restoring (since 1/07): N45FC O235 Longeze Cothern/Friling CF1 (~1000 Hrs)
Flying (since 9/86): N43732 A65 Taylorcraft BC12D
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10.
Emag/Pmag Discussion Part 1
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canard-aviators/message/46253;_ylc=X3oDMTJyNWFuMzdvBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzI4NTY0ODcEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MzQwMDg1BG1zZ0lkAzQ2MjUzBHNlYwNkbXNnBHNsawN2bXNnBHN0aW1lAzEyMjE2MDUwNjM->
Posted by: "U-Nick" unick3(at)gmail.com
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unick3 <http://profiles.yahoo.com/unick3>
Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:02 pm (PDT)
Hi all,
I wanted to provided an alternate viewpoint to the group discussion
concerning Emagair based on my personal experience.
In our canard community, I am positive I have the most years/flying
hours in front a Pmag and have had many discussions with the owners of
Emagair over the years. I can assure all of you, the owners of the
company are absolutely committed to the success of Emagair, they
listen to each purchasers input, are very open with information, spare
no expense to make their electronic ignition the best product possible
and try to do right by their customers.
I have had a three failures over the years with my Pmag. All the
failures were related to the series 112 optical sensor installation
which was admittedly early in the development of the product line. In
my particular case, I was comfortable early on with the risk I was
taking using an unproven product. I just happen to hate mags and
wanted something different.
Over the years, my confidence with Emagair has grown and I have been
lying with a 113 series for about 260 hrs with no problems (2.5
years). My success may be an isolated case in this community, but
with over a thousand units out there, Emagair would not still be in
business if there was major systemic problems, a high failure rate or
they were totally unsafe to fly as some might indicate.
This being said, I too share the concern others are expressing with
the experience Marc had with his installation. After reading the
latest series of emails, I decided to call Emagair to talk with the
owner to find out the current news on the magnet cup issue.
The reason for my involvement is solely because I am using their
product and inadvertently happened to be at Oshkosh this year when
Marc brought his failed 114 series Pmag to the Emagair booth and
listened to the discussion.
After seeing Marc's Emag and listening to his very valid and well
reasoned points concerning mass, inertia, mounting system, thermal
expansion, adhesive bonding issues, etc, I too could see there was a
problem with the how the magnet was mounted on the shaft.
Although Emagair had only seen one other case at that time of a
loosened magnet assembly they felt this problem needed to be
positively resolved.
Resolution (part 2)
Nick Ugolini
Charleston, SC
LongEZ-N29TM (2390 hrs), Cozy IV-N199V (restoring), Cozy 540RG
(planning stage)
Website: http://www.canardzone.com/members/nickugolini/
<http://www.canardzone.com/members/nickugolini/>
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