A Maintenance Oriented Podcast For Airplane Owners, Pilots, and Mechanics

048 – Can You Help Me With an Electrical Charging System Problem?

Today is a little different .

Instead of me just sharing things with you that I hope will be helpful, I’m asking for your help here.

But first, in today’s episode, I clarified something that I talked about in a previous episode… the one about the simple alternator inspection.

And then, for today, find out about an issue on a Piper Cherokee, that has been a nuisance for quite some time.  I’m asking for your help… have any of you experience anything like this?  Or if not, what about your mechanic?  If so, could you let me know?  Either send me an email at deanshow@gmail.com, or leave a comment on the website.  Some of the best ideas could appear on a future episode.

One cool thing about this whole thing, is that as I was preparing for this episode, I ended up doing some online research, and I think I now know what the problem is with that charging system… time will tell if my idea is accurate, or not.

Happy New Year everyone!  It’s 2017!

2 Comments

  1. Matt

    I am a owner/builder/pilot of RV-10. I have been listening to your podcasts and they are great help. I was curious in this episode (048) if you figured out the problem as I am have almost the exact same problem in my airplane.

    • Dean Showalter

      We tightened a terminal on the alternator, and also replaced the old style voltage regulator and overvoltage relay with a new style voltage regulator that has the overvoltage protection included in the same unit. No more problems.

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