Hi Kevin, Just remembered my last experience with severe carb ice was about 50 miles north of you and Paul, flying down the Mississippi river in southern-most Wisconsin the early summer. Overcast at

Thanks for the report Kevin. A little pucker factor there, but we are glad that you got is solved and did not make Paul have to miss his lunch. I was thinking maybe there was enough hot air in the

I'm getting ready to make a literal cross country to bring my Q200 out here to Mojave from my previous home airport in Ohio. I'm planning for <2 hour ~300 mile legs and I'm going to go south and

It won't prevent carb ice, but it's a reliable system to get rid of it. Sam

You are correct Mike, I pulled the cowl this morning. My temp sensor is in the throttle body plate. It’s been a long time since I installed it. 😊 Jim N46JP Q200

Kevin, thanks for sharing your experience. Will save someone else’s bacon. Good job. I knew there must be a reason I didn’t put in cabin heat. Just didn’t know what it was until now.

Jim, The carb spider is not a good place for measuring carb temp. The spider splits the air/fuel mixture into 4. If your using a MA3SPA carb, there is a plug in the throat where the sensor goes.

The standard installation for a carburated engine is to have two heat exchangers. There is a reason for this, and it has worked pretty successfully for thousands of aircraft. The carb heat should

I'll check into a temp gauge again. Thanks, Kevin

Mike, I did have a carb temp sensor, that you helped me design, but it was not robust enough to take the vibration etc. wires were too small gauge. No water, just finished annual and had drained all

Sam, I have one muff for both. Muff has fresh air inlet and two out. One for cab heat and one for cabin heat. Works great as long as the heated carb air travels all the way through the muff. When

Hey Kev! Glad to hear you are safe and sound. I’ve rarely had carb ice but when temp and dew point come together it’s not good. And yes! It makes for a real good butt pucker. I have a temp

Good trip report. I got a question tho... what was the dewpoint? At that temp it would be real easy to get the carb to freeze but shouldn't freeze at high power. Your fuel doesn't have water in it

Fun stuff, eh Kevin? I'm trying to get a handle on your cab heat and cabin heat setup. How about sending a few photos? You have two heat muffs right? There should be one for cabin heat and one for

Had the opportinity to take to the air yesterday. The mission was to meet Paul Fisher at DVN for lunch. Had flown once since signing off my condition inspection and all went well. Forecast was sunny

Carbon monoxide is never our friend. It bonds to the red corpuscles blocking them from moving oxygen. For a better alternative surf up ‘ Infrared tube heater gas ‘

Charlie, thanks. I am considering a Kerosene heater to keep me and the hangar warm, not much epoxy work, but the project is not painted so is there threat of some contamination on composite

Like propane or kerosene ? Propane produces a lot of water vapor, this can react with epoxy cure agents to produce amine blush on the surface of your laminate. Amine blush can be removed by scrubbing

Is there a problem in using Torpedo heaters in workshop/ hangar while working on composite airplane projects? Thanks Sanjay