Finn Lassen wrote:

I guess it had to happen sooner or later, but why at Sun'n'Fun? I was
planning to leave around noon Friday, had packed as much as I could in
the RV-3 and pulled the plane out and started it. Disabling the trailing
coil killed the engine. After checking the fuses to the coils I was
fairly certain that it was the ballast resistor in the leading coils
assembly. So I went scrounging for a .35 ohm resistor at the outdoor
vendor tents. No luck. So I bought a roll of 24 gauge wire, cut off 14'
and used that (still need to find a good quality resistor to put in
there). Flight home Friday evening was uneventful, as was the flight
back and forth Saturday to pick up my tent and do some last day
shopping.

Paul, thanks for the lift back and forth to Lakeland.

Finn

Too bad I left on Thursday. Could have helped you find a resistor
in town. Sounds like that stock resistor is guaranteed to fail.

Paul Lamar
 
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