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 Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject: Your book etc. |
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At 02:28 PM 8/19/2006 -0500, you wrote:
| Quote: | Dear Bob,
After reading your book I am wanting to redo my aircraft wiring. I
have re read much of your book and have some questions:
1, What is your main reason for using the heavy duty contactor
? It does require some current to hold it down and a switch uses a spring.
2, I also use a knife switch in the negative side of the battery
with a mechanical link to the panel. It seems to work ok and makes it
easy to take the battery out of the circuit which I like. It will have
some resistance but not much. It is one used in cars and trucks and is
available from several sources. What would you say about this?
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Any means you might devise to serve as a battery master
disconnect is certainly possible and even encouraged in
the OBAM aircraft community. The contactor is convenient
and works in about any situation irrespective of the aircraft
or battery location and it's easy.
Many production aircraft in times past had manuall operated
switches of one kind or another. I took lessons in a Piper
Tri-Pacer about 45 years ago that had manual battery switch
and manual starter switches.
| Quote: | 3. I have replaced the Rotax engine with a Corvair engine made by
William Wynne which uses two coils and a dual set of breaker points for
almost a dual ignition system, but uses only one set of plugs. I have it
running now but would like to do a rewire with an E buss and another
battery. To justify the added weight I may have to lose some weight
myself but I like the idea.
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I've met Mr. Wynne and read his publications. He's done
some impressive work with the Corvair conversions. Why
do you think you need dual batteries?
| Quote: | 4, Does B&C Electronics sell kits?
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Not that I know of.
| Quote: | 5. Thanks for writing a good book (may I expect some more pages?)
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Sure. Keep an eye on the What's New? section of our website.
You buy the book only one time and you can download future
updates from the website as they are published.
Bob . . .
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