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No mag drop on runup is UNACCEPTABLE. You need to know both
You can wait until it gets dark. Pull the airplane by a mercury vapor street light. Try to set the RPM at 1800. If the prop appears to stop at 1800 RPM your tach is right on the money. Run the engine until the prop appears to stop like if a timing light was shining on it.Do your mag check. The prop should appear to turn to the left because the RPM dropped. If it does this you should be able to tell if the mags are independent of each other. This takes some precision throttle movements to get the initial 1800 RPM setting, but in the end the whole process is self explanatory. This is also a tach check. The prop should show some motion change at 600 - 1200 - 1800 - 2400 RPM. Three blade props might or might not work like this, logic says they will but at a different RPM. Hope this helps. Just My 2¢ Worth |
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