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Old February 13th 18, 07:53 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Call 814-838-8934 and discuss. Erie Aviation in Pa. Micro Air repair in US. Should still be there.
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Old February 20th 18, 09:44 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Our club's Microairs were rubbish. But these were early models. The main problem was a poor-quality 4-sided socket the holds the main CPU. The socket sides were not strong enough and bowed-out. Thus poor connection to the chip. Numerous symptoms including spastic display... Remove the chip, carefully bend the contacts out to make better connections and hope that fixes things for a while. JR
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Old May 27th 18, 01:40 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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I’ve recently removed an old intercom and installed a flightcom 403mc used with my quite old microair 760 and rewired the input plug for the radio and seem to have gotten something wrong. The intercom works great, but the radio does not. It recieves and transmitts, however it only revieves scramble and only transmitts scramble. The problem is not with the intercom as I am having the same problem when I byepass the intercom entirely. Radio was working fine before. Any help would be greatly appreciated
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Old May 28th 18, 07:04 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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On Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 5:40:08 PM UTC-7, wrote:
I’ve recently removed an old intercom and installed a flightcom 403mc used with my quite old microair 760 and rewired the input plug for the radio and seem to have gotten something wrong. The intercom works great, but the radio does not. It recieves and transmitts, however it only revieves scramble and only transmitts scramble. The problem is not with the intercom as I am having the same problem when I byepass the intercom entirely. Radio was working fine before. Any help would be greatly appreciated


Over the years, Microair has had more complaints listed on RAS than any other radio that I can recall. I would strongly advise pilots to buy only those radios that can be serviced in the U.S. - why bother with dealing with a radio that has to be shipped internationally (two ways) to get repaired? And the other brands NEVER seem to require repair!

Microair lists the minimum voltage at 10.7 V. While transmitting, it draws 1.8 A, further dropping the battery voltage; this could be a problem at the end of a long flight if you have a full panel.

Tom
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Old May 28th 18, 03:03 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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There is/was an avionics shop in Erie, PA which services Microair radios.

Agreed on the radio crapping out at low voltage.Â* You could watch the
volt meter, key the mic, and be amazed at the drop.

On 5/28/2018 12:04 AM, 2G wrote:
On Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 5:40:08 PM UTC-7, wrote:
I’ve recently removed an old intercom and installed a flightcom 403mc used with my quite old microair 760 and rewired the input plug for the radio and seem to have gotten something wrong. The intercom works great, but the radio does not. It recieves and transmitts, however it only revieves scramble and only transmitts scramble. The problem is not with the intercom as I am having the same problem when I byepass the intercom entirely. Radio was working fine before. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Over the years, Microair has had more complaints listed on RAS than any other radio that I can recall. I would strongly advise pilots to buy only those radios that can be serviced in the U.S. - why bother with dealing with a radio that has to be shipped internationally (two ways) to get repaired? And the other brands NEVER seem to require repair!

Microair lists the minimum voltage at 10.7 V. While transmitting, it draws 1.8 A, further dropping the battery voltage; this could be a problem at the end of a long flight if you have a full panel.

Tom


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Old May 28th 18, 06:47 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Charlie M. (UH & 002 owner/pilot)
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Major MicroAir complaint has been the "chip fix". Sorta easy to do, not much more effort to make a longer term fix.

As mentioned I believe all of 2 posts above yours was a potential fix it shop in NW PA, thus US.

I have done the longer term fix, but not looking at making a living off it. I have only done local radios based on info from multiple sources.
I have no capability to do other fixes.
 




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