X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:32:50 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from imo-m14.mx.aol.com ([64.12.138.204] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 1054015 for lml@lancaironline.net; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:31:11 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.12.138.204; envelope-from=Sky2high@aol.com Received: from Sky2high@aol.com by imo-m14.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.3.) id q.36c.d455d9 (3956) for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:30:23 -0500 (EST) From: Sky2high@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <36c.d455d9.315e7adf@aol.com> X-Original-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:30:23 EST Subject: Re: [LML] Starter Contactor X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1143808223" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 2340 X-Spam-Flag: NO -------------------------------1143808223 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/31/2006 12:04:02 A.M. Central Standard Time, RWolf99@aol.com writes: Typically we use the continuous duty relays, which are actually contactors, to throw the battery onto the power bus, and we use a slightly lighter (1 oz less) and slightly cheaper ($8 less) intermittent duty relay as the starter contactor. My particular installation would be aided by using the metal-can continuous-duty relay as a starter contactor -- it's all about existing mounting holes and clearance to adjacent equipment. The answer would be simple if I knew the rating of the two devices (these are the parts out of Aircraft Spruce or Aerocraft -- the usual suspects), so the oretical answers are not what I'm looking for. Rob, This is what I use - it fits the same holes (nutplates on the backside of the firewall): (scroll down to starter relay) _http://www.bandc.info/cgi-bin/ez-catalog/cat_display.cgi?11X358218#s702-1_ (http://www.bandc.info/cgi-bin/ez-catalog/cat_display.cgi?11X358218#s702-1) Scott Krueger AKA Grayhawk LNC2 N92EX IO 320 SB 89/96 -------------------------------1143808223 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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This is what I use - it fits the same holes (nutplates on the backside=20= of=20 the firewall):
(scroll down to starter relay)
 
http://www.bandc.info/cgi-bin/ez-catalog/cat_display.cgi?11X358218#s7= 02-1
 
 
 
Scott Krueger=20 AKA Grayhawk
LNC2 N92EX IO 320 SB=20 89/96

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