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rstone4(at)hot.rr.com
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:06 am Post subject: Unhappness is a dead battery

Members,

      This message is for those  of you who experence long periods between flights in your aircraft.  Since  I am involved in so many other activities I am one of those who sometimes go for  a month to six weeks before I fly my aircraft so I had a problem of the battery  going dead or so weak that it would not turn the engine over.  I tried to  do a prop start one time and found out that with the Jabiru 3300 engine, this is  impossible.  Anyway I solved my problem with a small charger that stays  connected to the battery all the time.  I have enclosed a copy of the  add from Harbor Freight catalog so you can see the price has been  reduced.  This trickle charger may be left on the battery all the time but  there are some trickle chargers that must be watched because they are manual and  will over charge and ruin the battery.  

  

      My first attempt to send this  out was returned by the system as being too large because I scanned the whole  page in the Harbor Freight catalog, I then tried to use the URL and that would  not work so this is the 4th try and I hope it goes this time.

  

  Tracy Stone

 Harker Heights, Tx

 ZodiacXL w/Jabiru  3300

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DaveG601XL

Joined: 27 Oct 2006
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Location: Cincinnati, Oh

Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:20 am Post subject: Re: Unhappness is a dead battery

I do the same thing with my motorcycle in the winter.  In my area, there are enough periods to ride during winter months that I do not winterize the bike.  There are, though, enough cold snaps to keep you from riding for a month or so.  I have the $40 Battery Tender brand that monitors the voltage and only trickle charges when needed.  Has worked well for three winters now on the same battery.  I hear that some t-hangers in my area do not have electrical power so I have been thinking about solar alternatives.  But that can all wait.  I need to finish the airplane first.

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dredmoody(at)cox.net
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:24 am Post subject: Unhappness is a dead battery

I use a different brand of battery minder in my ultralight. I hard wired a pigtail plug to the battery. The pigtail plug is sort of like a two wire version of a trailer light plug. I bought that at Radio Shack and it is installed such that the + terminal can't accidently reach ground and drain the battery. Everytime I put the plane up in the hangar, the last action is to plug in the battery minder and I never arrive to a dead battery. I too, have breaks in my flying access so it is a must for me.



Dred



---- robert stone <rstone4(at)hot.rr.com> wrote: 

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		   Members,

      This message is for those of you who experence long periods between flights in your aircraft.

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leo(at)zuehlfield.com
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:38 am Post subject: Unhappness is a dead battery

List,



I use the same float charger as Robert Stone.  Three years now.  I 

bought a 1/4" Phone Jack and Plug from Rat Shack.  My battery is mounted 

behind the passenger seat so I mounted the Phone Jack on the side of the 

fuselage about 6 inches  above the trailing edge of the wing.  Wired the 

Phone Plug to the float charger.  I leave it plugged in all the time - 

except in-flight.  (



Leo Gates

N601Z

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hrs1(at)frontiernet.net
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:14 pm Post subject: Unhappness is a dead battery

What is a float charger?  Robert Schoenberger  do not archive.



Leo Gates wrote:

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 List,



 I use the same float charger as Robert Stone.  Three years now.  I 

 bought a 1/4" Phone Jack and Plug from Rat Shack.  My battery is 

 mounted behind the passenger seat so I mounted the Phone Jack on the 

 side of the fuselage about 6 inches  above the trailing edge of the 

 wing.  Wired the Phone Plug to the float charger.  I leave it plugged 

 in all the time - except in-flight.  (



 Leo Gates

 N601Z

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dredmoody(at)cox.net
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject: Unhappness is a dead battery

A float charger, AKA battey minder, is a charger which remains connected to the battery for extended intervals. It monitors the charge status of the battery and only charges until the battery is "topped off" then goes back to monitior mode. It won't just keep charging indiscriminately until it cooks your battery to a premature death.



Dred



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 What is a float charger?  Robert Schoenberger  do not archive.

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don_lewis(at)swbell.net
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:24 pm Post subject: Unhappness is a dead battery

See this

 http://www.vdcelectronics.com/batteryminder_12117.htm

 I think VDC makes the best... I have 4 of  them... You can catch 

 them on sale for $ 40- $50... Worth every  penny....

 Don n FTW

  

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Gig Giacona

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 1416
Location: El Dorado Arkansas USA

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:58 am Post subject: Re: Unhappness is a dead battery

Did you notice this at the end of the page?



Not for use with Aviation Specific batteries. See models 12248-AA and 24041-AA aviation specific charger-maintainer-desulphator-conditioners.

[quote="don_lewis(at)swbell.net"]See this

 http://www.vdcelectronics.com/batteryminder_12117.htm

 I think VDC makes the best... I have 4 of  them... You can catch 

 them on sale for $ 40- $50... Worth every  penny....

 Don n FTW

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