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Alan Carter
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 Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 4:33 pm Post subject: Battery Charging |
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Hello All.
Winter is coming, its not a good time for Batteries in the cold weather.
Has anyone fitted an external charging point to the fuselage.
My Battery is located in the rear on the Starboard side of the plane.
Is there a purpose make kit on the market one can use,?
Regards
Alan
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Alan Carter
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| Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 2:50 pm Post subject: Re: Battery Charging |
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Hello ALL.
Just to anybody interested, I have found you can get a socket that can be mounted behind a little door cut into the side of the fuselage, this can be used for Charging and External Starting.
Another way told to me was to use the cigar lighter socket as an input in reverse, but the socket would have to be wired directly to the battery, not via the Master Switch.
I have ended up purchasing a motor cycle external charging unit,
consists of Two eye piece connection leads, one - and one + with built in fuse, these eyelets go onto the battery terminals,
A plastic moulded two pin connector with cover is at the other end wire, this just pops out the floor in the rear of cockpit.
I run a short removable connecting lead from this and let the other end dangle out of the small air vent on the planes front Starboard side.
With the plane all done up in its cockpit covers, I can just plug my little maintenance charger into the plug.
It works well, a fully charged battery gives a faster spin over and prevents detonation.
Alan
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 4:35 am Post subject: Battery Charging |
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Alan
Take care with the little door method as this will probably need to go through theLAA as a mod!
Rgds
David Joyce
The other one
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www.eastmidsspas.com
On 4 Dec 2012, at 22:50, "Alan Carter" <alancarteresq(at)onetel.net> wrote:
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Hello ALL.
Just to anybody interested, I have found you can get a socket that can be mounted behind a little door cut into the side of the fuselage, this can be used for Charging and External Starting.
Another way told to me was to use the cigar lighter socket as an input in reverse, but the socket would have to be wired directly to the battery, not via the Master Switch.
I have ended up purchasing a motor cycle external charging unit,
consists of Two eye piece connection leads, one - and one + with built in fuse, these eyelets go onto the battery terminals,
A plastic moulded two pin connector with cover is at the other end wire, this just pops out the floor in the rear of cockpit.
I run a short removable connecting lead from this and let the other end dangle out of the small air vent on the planes front Starboard side.
With the plane all done up in its cockpit covers, I can just plug my little maintenance charger into the plug.
It works well, a fully charged battery gives a faster spin over and prevents detonation.
Alan
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