B-J-J Fighter
Royce Gracie in Action
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I posted this before the webpage crashed. I can't seem to find it since the page has been back up. A guy I use tp fly with has an E model Aztec. He was taken the airplane to 2 different shops to try and diagnose as well as fix the problem. Neither one can figure out what is going on. Of course it has 2 alternators. When you are on the ground with a low power setting or idle boths ALTS will stay online at the same time, however when you add takeoff power and usually in cruise one of the alternators will kick offline. The other one will pick up the slack so the battery never goes dead or anything. Many times in flight the working alternator will kick offline and the one that wasn't working will almost instantly come up to take over for the one that kicked off. I hope I'm being clear. Basically in cruise or with a high power setting both alternators will not function at the same time and the little red lights on the right side for ALT Inop take turns flickering. One of the shops thinks it's a problem with the parralleing (sp?) in the system. It's not the voltage regulator, that was checked. Any ideas??