They listen
They listen
I was talking to one of the Helicycle veterans about my charging system. He showed me his KeyWest voltage regulator and told me to change mine to that. It will run the governor and fuel control valve without any batteries at all. I told him I already have that same one installed, and that it came with the kit. I found out later that Frank had told the factory about his regulator, they listened...they tested..and they supplied.
I was pleased to also find out that the factory will modify my main fuel solenoid to fail safe....meaning if I lose power to it...it will fail open, allowing fuel to continue on. They even have a small backup battery that is charged through the sysem, but should I have an electrical failure, the fuel valve will fail open....but this backup battery will feed the governor and take care of an overspeed should it occur. The kit will have diodes that protect this backup system should stuff on the other side of the diodes short out and completely fry. I think its a good modification, and I plan to do it after my checkout.
Here are some last minute stuff I am doing now. I was told I could button up the belly of my cabin, and now I am finishing my spiral wrapping, and running my pitot and static lines.
The top instrument panel just flops out for easy access. I gauged the length of my pitot and static lines so that they would be long enough to pull the panel as in the picture. 10 seconds and the panels back in its place waiting for its screws. Very, very easy to work on.
The last picture is the latest greates potentiometer that controls the turbine speed from 45,000 to 62,000 rpm.
Its wired into my throttle grip on the collective. This throttle has a nice friction control on it as well as the collective lever also.
Stan