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jlno7(at)aim.com
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 Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 7:42 pm Post subject: electrical wiring for Kitfox 1 |
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I have a Kitfox 1 with 2 modifications. I believe I have a short in my wiring and am wondering if there is a wiring diagram for my plane. I recently installed a new battery and when I hooked it up the wire melted from the ignition all the way to the battery. This is not the main cable but a regular gauge wire that attached from the battery to the ignition switch. Can anyone give me advice on locating the problem.
Jerry Novak
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| Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject: electrical wiring for Kitfox 1 |
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Jerry
Do you have the type of ignition which has key positions for start, run, and left and right mag and off?? If so then disconnect the battery and put an ohm meter on the wire which was shorted and follow the short towards the switch ---- try the different positions, does the short disappear?? If so then find which position it reappears and follow that wire till you locate the short. There is also a ground connection on the switch --- per chance you did not in error hook this to the positive side of the battery?? If you did then you will get an instant melt down.
Give us a few more clues to the number of wires on the battery and the type of ignition control (key operated, single toggle or double toggle??)
Ted Palamarek
Edmonton Ab
KF IV/912
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Subject: electrical wiring for Kitfox 1
I have a Kitfox 1 with 2 modifications. I believe I have a short in my wiring and am wondering if there is a wiring diagram for my plane. I recently installed a new battery and when I hooked it up the wire melted from the ignition all the way to the battery. This is not the main cable but a regular gauge wire that attached from the battery to the ignition switch. Can anyone give me advice on locating the problem.
Jerry Novak
N299JK
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bskip(at)mac.com
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:54 am Post subject: electrical wiring for Kitfox 1 |
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I actually had the same thing happen on my 66 C-150 when I changed the battery. I repaired a small wire that I thought I broke while removing the battery. It turned out that when I had the plunger type ignition replaced with a push button the wire was no longer needed and was cut into but never removed. The ignition was heavy duty so it was not effected by my bad.
On Dec 7, 2008, at 9:41 PM, jlno7(at)aim.com (jlno7(at)aim.com) wrote:
| Quote: | I have a Kitfox 1 with 2 modifications. I believe I have a short in my wiring and am wondering if there is a wiring diagram for my plane. I recently installed a new battery and when I hooked it up the wire melted from the ignition all the way to the battery. This is not the main cable but a regular gauge wire that attached from the battery to the ignition switch. Can anyone give me advice on locating the problem.
Jerry Novak
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Guy Buchanan
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:38 am Post subject: electrical wiring for Kitfox 1 |
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At 07:41 PM 12/7/2008, you wrote:
| Quote: | I believe I have a short in my wiring and am
wondering if there is a wiring diagram for my
plane. � I recently installed a new battery and
when I hooked it up the wire melted from the
ignition all the way to the battery.
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Jerry,
First, unless your plane came with one
you won't find a valid wiring diagram, as no two
Kitfoxes are the same in this regard. That said,
these planes are pretty simple so it should be
easy to diagnose. You obviously generated a dead
short, meaning you connected the battery positive
to negative with nearly no resistance, or load.
The most likely culprit is that a wire that
should have been connected to ground was
connected to hot, or some other missed
connection. The second would be a switch failure,
in which one of the terminals gets shorted to
ground. (This usually results in a high
resistance failure, melting the switch, not the wiring.)
Give us more details on the layout and
we'll try to help you diagnose from afar. (And if
you put your location in your signature, you
might find a local Kitfoxer with skills to help.  )
Guy Buchanan
San Diego, CA
K-IV 1200 / 582-C / Warp / 100% done, thanks mostly to Bob Ducar.
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