EGT Sensor Fault
I'm flying a Sling2 with a 912iS Sport Engine. First flight Nov 2019, currently at 254 hours on engine.
For the last 2 months I've been trying to figure out a Lane A flashing light when I bring my throttle to idle in the landing pattern. My Garmin 3X FADEC information shows it as a Lane A Status: Advisory, and Cylinder 1 EGT Sensor Fault and Cylinder 4 EGT Sensor Fault. I can watch the engine monitor page on landing (and also memory logs) and all 4 EGT show around 1300-1400 until I pull back to idle and then I can see EGT1 and EGT4 decrease to the 500-700 range. After the Lane A light starts to flash the EGT1 & EGT4 temps start to rise (throttle still at idle), and in 15-20 seconds they are back up to where they should be. An interesting observation is that if I leave Lane A flashing and bring the rpm up back to cruise for a while and then once again bring the throttle back to idle all 4 EGT stay where they should (1300-1400).
My engine seems to be operating great, so my 1st assumption was that I had a couple of bad EGT probes. So I switched probe 1 with probe 2 and also installed a new probe on cylinder 4. No change in the problem, EGT1 & EGT4 failure.
I've reseated the Lane A connector to the fuse box, including using dielectric grease on the connector, and again no change in the problem.
I now started to think that maybe there is something going on with the engine where what I'm seeing on the engine monitor is correct and something is causing the exhaust temps to fall (even as I don't detect any engine problem). So I installed new spark plugs and on cylinder 1 & cylinder 4 I trimmed off 1/4" of the spark plug wires and reattached the original caps. Again, no change in the problem.
I don't see how it could be a coil as I understand that cylinders 1 & 2 share coils and cylinders 3 & 4 share coils. My problem is with cylinders 1 & 4.
- I can't reproduce on the ground.
- FYI, my idle is set to 25% so around 1900 rpm on the ground and 2600 rpm in the pattern
- What is shared between cylinder 1 and cylinder 4? There must be something common as these 2 cylinders started to fail around the same time 2 months ago.
- How does the engine operate differently when Lane A is flashing?
Thanks for any and all advise.
Bill