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Bob, thankyou for your reply, much appreciated.
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Will a maxifuse not blow as fast as a normal blade fuse? Is a slow blow blade fuse available?

The endurance bus feed wire from the hot battery bus is protected by a fuse at
one end and a fuselink ...

In that case could a fuse link be used on the source end of the wire to protect the wire and then feeding the bus via one of the fast on rather than the main bolt terminal to provide fast blow protect ...

Hi.
I have no intention of messing with cbâ€™s or fuses in flight. The fuse blocks are mounted on a drop down panel between the main and sub panels. I donâ€™t want to mount the battery bus on the fi ...

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On the Z13 design the wire from the contactor to the battery bus is recommended to be 6" or less. I don't want to put the battery bus on the fwf but on a panel with the other fuseblocks whi ...

Why is there no protection on the feed wire to the main bus from the battery contactor? Assuming the contactor is on the firewall fwd and the main bus is on a sub panel in front of the main panel itâ€ ...

Is it acceptable to use cb's, fuses or limiters in place of the fuse links from the stby alternator, main bus to master and the alternate essential bus feed? Also is it ok to use 1 amp fuses in place ...

Is the SD8 on/available during normal flight? If the output is fed through a diode would that prevent the alternators 'competing' or is the voltage set at lower level than the main alternator and moni ...

Thankyou Bob
I am building the aircraft with approval for IFR flight here in the UK and the LAA are concerned about single failure points. Using the Z13.8 architecture is it possible to monitor if th ...

Hi. Building an RV7 in the UK with a G3X system and thinking of using the z13/8 architecture with the SD8 backup alt and GAD27 to maintain voltage to the GDU etc during engine start. Is it normal or a ...