Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: flyrotary Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 11:00:31 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [128.83.126.134] (HELO mail.utexas.edu) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with SMTP id 2044280 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:28:12 -0500 Received: (qmail 27035 invoked by uid 0); 5 Mar 2003 15:28:11 -0000 Received: from dhcp-191-101.per.utexas.edu (HELO benefits3.mail.utexas.edu) (146.6.191.101) by with SMTP; 5 Mar 2003 15:28:11 -0000 X-Original-Message-Id: <5.1.1.5.2.20030305092604.03777c58@localhost> X-Sender: msteitle@mail.utexas.edu@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 X-Original-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 09:28:04 -0600 X-Original-To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" From: Mark Steitle Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Starter solenoid In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=====================_8976578==.ALT" --=====================_8976578==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Al, Bob Nuckols wrote an article about why you should have an external starter solenoid. You can read his article at: http://www.aeroelectric.com/articles/strtctr.pdf Mark S. At 08:07 AM 3/5/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > >What s the steady-state current draw of the starter solenoid? > > > >Why, in all of Bob Nuckol s wiring diagrams, is there a starter contactor >switching the heavy current to the starter? There is already a contactor >in the solenoid. What am I missing here? > > > >Al Gietzen --=====================_8976578==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Al,
Bob Nuckols wrote an article about why you should have an external starter solenoid. 
You can read his article at:  http://www.aeroelectric.com/articles/strtctr.pdf

Mark S.

At 08:07 AM 3/5/2003 -0500, you wrote:

 

What s the steady-state current draw of the starter solenoid? 

 

Why, in all of Bob Nuckol s wiring diagrams, is there a starter contactor switching the heavy current to the starter?  There is already a contactor in the solenoid.  What am I missing here?

 

Al Gietzen
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