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Re: Boost Pump

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Hi Antoine, I will travel back to CH tomorrow and will have to do as well a cold weather procedure, hope the weather is fly able, have to bring it to the annual .. I do it in Leutkirch Germany .. So today last eve in warm Florida. Thomas
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I bought a charger, see link. It is a good equipment and could be used as a Gnd power as well. Fellow pilots here in Buochs are using it for the monthly FMS update of the PC 12.
I put it on from time to time in Winter to keep the battery up.

aircraftspruce.com/catalog/elpages/portPowerCharger24ces.php
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Thanks Thomas for the link. Weather should be fine, just the usual morning stratus but I heard it should stay dry until monday or so.

Have a safe flight

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anybody has a part number and contact at Dukes? the did not respond to my enquiry so far...
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I just stumbled across and old email from a Diamond Service center MidWest Avtech in Peru IL. They have a 2003 DA40 with over 7,000 hours. They replaced the boost pump at 1,700 hrs and not since so at least one pump has lasted over 5,000 hours. They also replaced pumps on other DA40s at 1,400 and 2,000 hours.
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Antoine wrote:anybody has a part number and contact at Dukes? the did not respond to my enquiry so far...
Sorry for the late info Antoine, I only just came across you request. My contact in 2008 was Sheri Kirkpatrick <kirkpatrick (at) dukesinc.com> I've attached a scan of the invoice below.

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Re: Boost Pump

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Thank you Nigel. unfortunately too late, I have just asked my maintenance shop to order the pump. Bracing for another big ticket invoice :(
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Re: Boost Pump

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Heyyyyyy new fuel pump installed today and guess what, they delivered a revision C :) at least it will be money well spent.
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Antoine wrote:Heyyyyyy new fuel pump installed today and guess what, they delivered a revision C :) at least it will be money well spent.
Any documentation stating what the improvements in version C are? Is it any quieter?
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Nigel wrote:
Antoine wrote:Heyyyyyy new fuel pump installed today and guess what, they delivered a revision C :) at least it will be money well spent.
Any documentation stating what the improvements in version C are? Is it any quieter?
No documentation apart form an invoice similar to yours. And yes, now that you say so it has become quite enough that I have difficulty hearing it with the Bose headset in noise cancelling mode.
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