About this episode
(If you’re in a hurry, scroll down to see the tiny little chafed wire that caused this whole conundrum.)
Now here’s the story…
This landing gear relay breaker had been popping intermittently:
It came time for annual inspection and we decided to replace the breaker with a new one, in order to rule out a faulty breaker, and attempting to minimize long and frustrating labor for troubleshooting.
Good thing, because as it turns out, there was a loose screw in the landing gear motor breaker next to this one, which would not have been discovered if we had not replaced the relay breaker… check out the loose screw:
It was obvious some arcing had occurred due to the poor connection:
Unfortunately, tightening the screw in the 30 amp motor breaker, and installing a new 5
