ELECTRICAL FAILURE WITH GEAR DOWN. BEFORE LNDG GEAR RETRACTED FOR UNKNOWN REASON. GEAR UP LNDG.

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I WAS FLYING A SENECA PA-34-200 IN VAN NUYS (CA) TFC PATTERN FOR SOME TOUCH AND GOES. I HAD ELECTRICAL FAILURE WHEN I WAS ALREADY IN LNDG CONFIGN (WITH THE GEAR DOWN) BUT I WASN'T CLRED TO LAND. SO I CAME BACK IN DOWNWIND; 500 FT ABOVE THE TFC PATTERN AND I MADE A 360 DEG TURN ABEAM THE VNY TWR WAITING FOR LIGHTS FROM THE TWR. I WAS THERE FOR ALMOST 15 MIN BUT THEY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT ME; SO I DECIDED TO LAND IN SANTA PAULA ARPT THAT IS AN ARPT 25 MI FAR AWAY FROM VAN NUYS AND IS UNCTLED. I FLEW ALL THE WAY FROM VNY TO SZP WITH THE GEAR DOWN BECAUSE THE ELECTRICAL FAILURE HAPPENED WHEN THE GEAR WERE DOWN ALREADY AND I COULD SEE THE NOSE GEAR FROM THE MIRROR. WHEN I WAS IN UPWIND IN SANTA PAULA ARPT I PULLED ALSO THE EMER GEAR DOWN BECAUSE WITH THE ELECTRICAL FAILURE EVEN IF I SAW THE FRONT GEAR DOWN FROM THE MIRROR I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH THE ELECTRICAL GEAR SYS. I DID THE APCH AND WHEN I LANDED I FIRST ROLLED OUT WITH THE GEARS; ABUT AFTER 2 SECONDS THEY CAME BACK IN UP POS AND I MADE THE REST OF THE LNDG WITHOUT GEARS. I KNOW THAT INCIDENTS LIKE THIS CAN HAPPEN (THE GEAR WEREN'T LOCKED IN THE RIGHT POS AND I DON'T KNOW WHY). I LANDED AND I TRIED TO HAVE CTL OF THE AIRPLANE FOR AS MUCH AS I COULD AND NOTHING HAPPENED TO ME AND THE PAX THAT WAS WITH ME. THE ONLY THING I WANT TO SAY IS THAT IN A SIT LIKE THIS I WOULD PREFER TO LAND IN A CTLED ARPT BECAUSE SOMETHING COULD HAPPEN AND IN THAT CASE I COULD HAVE MORE ASSISTANCE. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY VNY TWR IGNORED ME.