Return-Path: Received: from ms-smtp-01.southeast.rr.com ([24.93.67.82] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1) with ESMTP id 2511555 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 04 Aug 2003 22:20:49 -0400 Received: from nc.rr.com (cpe-024-211-183-088.nc.rr.com [24.211.183.88]) by ms-smtp-01.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h752EF88027941 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 22:14:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F2F132A.5000403@nc.rr.com> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 22:15:06 -0400 From: Ernest Christley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: tiny tach works, and my plane is a pig References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Russell Duffy wrote: > -Two is to add a backup battery next to the primary battery in the aft > end of the baggage compartment. I haven't quite figured out how I'd > hook this up, since I'd really want it to be a completely separate power > source (no alternator or connection to the other battery). The Odyssey > batteries are so very good that it could be charged on the ground > periodically, and would be good when you needed it (hopefully never). > Still thinking about this, but it would mean adding 15 pounds in the > baggage compartment, rather than 5 pounds in the tail. Add one of those solar chargers to the backup battery and have it only available for must have avionics. -- ----Because I can---- http://www.ernest.isa-geek.org/ ------------------------