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Roger, Roger
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Anyone worked with it much? A friend of mine had an interesting failure of the Slick Start box. I'd like to know if anyone else has encountered problems with them before.
trafficinsight
Well-Known Member
heard of it, know of one airplane with it but I don't know much about it, other than it seems to be the slick version of the "shower of sparks"
R
Roger, Roger
Guest
Sort of.... It's all solid state. Pretty neato and works really well at giving a good boost during start. However, in this particular failure scenario it grounded out the left mag so when the pilot did his mag check and switched to the left mag, the engine quit. Then it blew an exhaust stack when he switched the key back on.
trafficinsight
Well-Known Member
ouch, gotta love those exhaust destroying after-fires.
How well does it work really? one 206 I work on has it and the rest don't and none of them are that hard to start.
How well does it work really? one 206 I work on has it and the rest don't and none of them are that hard to start.
R
Roger, Roger
Guest
You know, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be much different than starting with impulse couplings, but then I haven't started this same model of engine with impulse couplings either. The nice thing about it is no repetitive impulse coupling inspections and no moving parts. It just plugs in and works. Except when it doesn't....
ppragman
No pasa nada.
Vice versa, pre slick start iirc.
R
Roger, Roger
Guest
Yeah, I haven't heard from him, but second hand... an impulse coupling that killed a friend of his?
wjmiller3
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R
Roger, Roger
Guest
The 22 uses impulse couplings?
I'm surprised.
trafficinsight
Well-Known Member
Cold weather? The only time I've had an impulse coupling fail was when the weather was so cold that the congealed oil prevented the flyweight from moving.