Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #54089
From: Terrence O'Neill <troneill@charter.net>
Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] Re: 2 questions
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:47:47 -0500
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>
Thanks, Colyn. Your info about the 625 is reassuring.
 I now think my Odysey charger (smallest one) is kaput... will call the co. tomorrow... the battery reads about 5.5 vdc' now... and when connected to the charger the vdc drops to 88.4 mV  that's millivolts... ... and when I put my tester to the output of the charger it reads zip.  
Electricity is not my strong suit....
Terrence
N211AL L235.320

On Jan 3, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Colyn Case at earthlink wrote:

A couple other points on the odyssey battery.
1) Probably everyone knows this but just in case:   A std aviation battery will sulphate if you leave it on the shelf for a year.    this happened to me so at that point I had a choice of buying an expensive de-sulphating charger or buying odyssey batteries which don't have this problem.   I bought the batteries.
 
2) the pc680 is called the pc680 because it provides 680 amps for 5 seconds.   Similarly the pc625 provides only 625 amps for 5 seconds.   However, in every other cranking metric: "cranking", "cold cranking", "hot cranking"   the pc625 outperforms the pc680.  It also has more total storage capacity.    On my airplane, the cranking situation I'm most worried about is in the air, trying to get the prop out of feather.   (k.  we just had the debate about props and their handling so we don't need to do that again).   I decided cold cranking amps is what I care about.
 
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