Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 22:19:16
The Odyssey is an RG battery . . . it's assembled with Hawker's traditional "extra care" that exemplifies their Genesis and other RG products. Whether or not it's good value remains to be seen in th
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 22:28:11
Go buy any 12v wall-wart from Radio Shack or other consumer electronics supplier. Fit with plug to fit your radio. Clip one of the wires in the connection cord and measure the current flow while plu
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 08:14:29
The conventional wisdom being circulated conforms to the fondest wishes of the folk who build and sell batteries. "Treat my product with tender loving care and it will give you the best performance
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 08:20:26
But don't forget . . . fuses and breakers protect wire. Wire carries current for the loads you anticipate running from the circuit. A hand-held radio would be very hard pressed to draw more than 1 a
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:15:26
ear.navy.mil> I'm not sure this is a valid deduction. By-in-large, vent-regulated, sealed lead-acid, recombinant-gas batteries are quite tolerant of high rate recharge. Consider that "charging" rever
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:25:22
simplicity. My "most contingencies?" . . . "three independent pathways?" Guys . . . you're letting decades of "dark and stormy night" stories played out in certified aircraft drive unfounded fears a
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 11:28:57
The Lancaster weekend seminar date has been set at Nov 18/19, 2000. Facilities arrangments are being finalized and folks that have already signed up will be asked to re-confirm their reservations and
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:54:35
If you'd like to get your feet wet with the world's most popular PC based CAD system REALLY cheap, check out . . . http://www.aeroelectric.com/acadr12.html This will stay up on the website for a few
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:42:30
The more compelling reason for putting starter contactor on firewall is to reduce number of firewall penetrations of FAT wires . . . you tie the alternator into the system using in-line fused jumper
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:08:59
I've had several requests over the past few weeks to incorporate separate concepts described with individual articles into a power distribution diagram illustrating their relationships to the whole a
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 09:55:42
"battery"] Bob . . . -- ( Knowing about a thing is different from ) ( understanding it. One can know a lot ) ( and still understand nothing. ) ( C.F. Kettering ) -- http://www.aeroelectric.com
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:46:45
I'm sorry to have to announce that only 5 of the ordiginal 35 people who signed up for the Lancaster program have confirmed their resesrvations. I'm now past the deadline for getting inexpensive airf
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:25:27
happens when the coil is released and does not effect the switch part of the relay. Not the whole story. It's true that contacts overheat and degrade when loaded with too much current but 90% of the
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:41:03
Quite true . . . and it can happen to ANY style contactor. Not sure about what Wicks is selling if it looks like: http://www.aeroelectric.com/Catalog/switch/s701-1l.jpg then IT IS important to hold
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:00:04
I recall a story circulated around OSH about ten years ago. Seems some show pilot landed and found a chewed up starter ring gear and his starter contactor was stuck shut. Some arm-chair engineering
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:56:13
be on in Le This explains it. NONE of heavy duty contactors in that package are suited to starter contactor service . . . for a time, RBM Controls, later White-Rogers, now Stancore built a series of
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:20:07
A reader comments on the practice of putting diodes across the coil of a contactor . . Yeeeaaahhh BUT . . . I've never been able to document much change in the contact spreading velocity of the conta
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 13:42:48
that I open my weekend seminars with the observation that amateur airplane builders are fabricating the finest airplanes to have ever flown. I support that statment as follows: The folk pounding riv
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:42:39
Our website was mis-behaving off and on several days last week and now has been down 100% since late Saturday night. I've been getting a ton of e-mail from folks who have been trying to access it uns
Author: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:34:27
My 4 month arm-wrestling match with the supplier has ended in victory . . . the tools we thought we were going to get back in August are here. Whether you use our tool or not, here's a comic book on