Wiring Diagrams

The complete drawing

The scribbling you see in the drawings is where we added things like switches for the Nav Lites, Strobes and mistakes RotorWay had in the drawings plus changes we made for our personal ship.

Same drawing it's just cut into quarters for easier viewing.

Possible Flaw in Rotorways Wiring Design

Acording to Orv Neisingh,

 This has went way past the maybe stage on more then one occasion in his experences so it isn't something to take lightly and needs to adressed.

Orv has contacted the Rotorway factory and said he's is waiting for a responce from them, that was approximately July/04.   When and if they every do I'll post the answer here and in the bulletins from Rotorway and Beyond section.  Until they do it looks like we're on our own to decide weather to ride with it as is or take it in our own hands and take our best shot at it.

This is the current Rotorway wiring for the upper instrument panel

It's being said that it isn't wired correctly because if the wire coming from the alternator on "Plug 2 / wire 12" shorts that it will blow the fuse at the alternator plus blow out Fuse 7 and 8. This completely knocks out not only fadec 1 and 2 but it also both Ignition 1 and 2 plus Fuel pumps 1 and 2 since they're all powered by the same circuit.

Personely I never looked how it was wired before this and from what I'm seeing there is no seperation at all for the two seperate fadec ignition systems because there both powered by two seperately fused lines plus the alternator line that is ran ahead of the two main fuses which makes them the two fuses  "7 & 8 "ahead of it pretty usless as far as I can see.

Personely I can't understand why theres a feed directly from the alternator up there at all.  I asked Orv about it and he said he thought that if current was totaly lost from the battery it's self,  the alternator could run the ship on its own and get you back on the ground.

 
Thats a good theory but I feel the same thing can be accomplished by just leaving the alternator wire out of the overhead panel compleatly and just have the one existing line that already runs from the alternator to the battery.  Both existing lines to the overhead would have to have a major issue for them to loose power and the alternator wire joins the pair at the battery post already,  the only difference I can see is the lenght of wire running to the overhead wouldn't be there taking up space.  The hang up I have about doing this is the way Rotorway has the alternator ran in on the side of the fuse that makes it non fused up there.
Perhaps its a safty thing and they have a very good hard learned reason for it.

This is the solution Orv came up with as best as I can figure from his post about it on RotorwayFun/MSN and in a conversaition with him on the phone November 15th 04.