185 – Standby Alternator System and Other Fun Stuff

Airplane Owner Maintenance - By Dean Showalter

I’ve just completed the installation for a B&C Specialties standby alternator system on an E33A Bonanza. It’s a fantastic system, and I talked about it in today’s podcast episode. Be sure to listen for a caution about the right magneto when installing a new oil seal in the drive adapter for the standby alternator.

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Here are some other items mentioned in this episode:

Jim Lanning (92 years old!) and David McCain, stopped at KSHD yesterday in a beautiful Great Lakes aircraft. Jim is in the front seat. Check it out:

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A weird oil leak on a Diamond DA-40 I’m hoping we can fix and tell the rest of the story in a future episode.

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Now back to the Bonanza with the standby alternator system. We also installed new nose gear rod ends and some other parts on the airplane as well. The old rod ends are hollow and have a grease fitting on the side, which has been seen as a factor in these old rod ends breaking and causing prop strikes and other damage. Check out the difference between the old hollow type rod ends and the new solid type:

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The standby alternator system turned out very well… I installed the switch and the 2 circuit breakers in the pilot’s instrument panel:

There was an ideal location for the indicator light just to the left of the already existing warning light for the main alternator system:

The final product is going to work very well:

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