Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Enigma is here! - 3 hours (429 Total)

My Enigma finally arrived. The Enigma is the color upgrade to my Stratomaster instrument display. Other than having a color display, the other neat feature is the built in GPS.

Below is a photo of my installed Enigma. The second photo shows the rivnuts I used to mount the Enigma.































Below is a photo of my slip indicator. I mounted it with the rivnuts also.















My Stratomaster suffered from resets occasionally when I attempt to start my engine. The starter would suck so much current that the voltage would drop to levels below what the Stratomaster required to operate. I installed the 3000uF, 30V capacitor into my instrument pod to try to alleviate this problem. I chose this cap because of the large solder lugs it has.

The cap seemed to help some but I still got some resets when I continued to crank the engine to the point where the battery drained down and was having difficulty turning the engine over. The resets would be expected at this point since the starter is drawing a huge amount of current when stuck.