rickofudall
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 Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 5:25 pm Post subject: Ameri-King AK-450 vs ACK E-10 Remote Control Panel... |
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Matt, Wouldn't it be even easier to just switch out the ELT and match up RCP to appropriate ELT?
Rick Girard
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Matt Dralle <dralle(at)matronics.com (dralle(at)matronics.com)> wrote:
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I just got an email back from ACK Tech and they said:
"To use the Ameriking remote you must cut one end off the cable and turn it 180 degrees. - Mike Akatiff, ACK Technologies"
Simple enough! Yahoo!
Matt Dralle
At 09:53 AM 10/10/2011 Monday, Matt Dralle wrote:
>--> AeroElectric-List message posted by: Matt Dralle <dralle(at)matronics.com (dralle(at)matronics.com)>
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>Greetings Listers,
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>I have an RV-6 with an ACK E-01 ELT unit and the small Remote Control Panel (RCP) unit. Last month, I completely replaced the instrument panel in the airplane and when I removed the ELT's RCP, I noticed that one of the mounting holes was broken off.
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>I had another ELT on the shelf for another project and so I grabbed the RCP from it and designed a hole in the new instrument panel for it. The hole for this RCP was about twice the height of the hole for the RCP from the E-01 but appeared to be exactly the same as far as make and connector hole.
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>Well, I didn't really put two and two together at the time but the E-01 is from ACK Technologies, and the RCP from the other unit is an Ameri-King AK-450. Except for the difference in vertical size the two RCP's look exactly the same and accept the same RJ-11 connector. Both have a Red and a Black button and a single Red LED. Both take a 3 volt battery.
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>But here's the bummer, after I put everything back together this weekend, it turns out that the new RCP will NOT turn the E-01 on/off. If I plug the original E-01 RCP in to the same RJ-11 wire, it does turn the E-01 on/off, so the wiring and E-01 are fine. It just seems that the internal wiring of the two different RCP's is slightly different.
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>The bigger bummer is that now I have a large hole in my panel for the RCP that doesn't work, so I have to figure something out. The original-sized RCP won't fit because its too small and the panel hole is too big.
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>Can anyone lend any advice on the situation? Surely others have run into this before.
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>Thanks!
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>Matt Dralle
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