June 7th

I met Shane at the airport and tinkered.  First off, I checked that I could get the rotor RPM gauge to work by running a drill by it - found out it needs to be the motor end of the drill by the sensor - on Randy's plane (because it's next to Shane's) it worked a treat.

Next, I checked that with the rotor brake on, the RRPM gauge worked on Shane's plane.  It did.  Taking the brake off stopped it working.

We swapped the switch, and now it worked when the rotor brake was off.

Because Shane's as pessimistic as I am, we pulled his gyro out of the hangar and actually span the rotor up to make sure the gauge worked, then put it away again.

June 6th

I swapped emails with Greg from Magni USA and it sounds like the rotor switch on Shane's gyro should be a NC, rather than the NO I put in.  He also shared that you can put an electric drill motor next to the sensor to test without having to spin the rotor :o)

Looking through all my accumulated crap, I had an NC switch, so I soldered a couple of bits of wire to it and we'll see about installing it tomorrow.

June 5th

It was throwing it down with rain, so Randy and I drove over to Cameron Park for their breakfast - there were a fairly large number of attendees, despite the rain.

We went on to the airport, where I replaced the push-to-talk switch on my plane, and we looked at the switch for Shane's rotor RPM gauge - replacing it doesn't seem to have fixed it, so I'll have to think about it.

In the evening, we went to Shane's birthday party, and ate cake :o)

June 4th

We met Shane and Liza at the airport, intending to fly to Sutter for lunch.  After an aborted takeoff by Shane, and rain appearing on my windscreen, we figured out the problem with Shane's rotor RPM gauge (bad microswitch) and just went to lunch at Karen's.

June 2nd

I met Shane at the airport and we tinkered with his EIS until it stopped alarming.  So now, hopefully, it's of some use, as before it had most of the alarms set to 0.

June 1st

A new month, so here are the stats:

Power billed

Power generated

May 31st

The video I posted to YouTube yesterday has gone viral, with literally tens of view :o)

I got to pick up my new glasses, and they didn't give me vertigo, so I think that's done with.

In the evening we went and saw "Top Gun: Maverick."  We had been planning to go with a bunch of pilots, but that turned out to be like herding cats so we just gave up and went by ourselves.