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Subject: Re: Europa-List: Batteries
From: ownereuropalistserver@matronics.com
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 19:06:23

Ooohhhhhh, it's that simple...???
Regards Gert

Gert Dalgaard Soerensen

Europa builder No. 151
Europa Classic / Rotax 914
AC reg.:    OY-GDS

E mail:    lgds@post6.tele.dk
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mandag 23. jun 2003 kl. 17:18 skrev Neville Eyre:

> <Neville@europa-aircraft.com>
>
> Hi All,
> All the people involved with electricity over the years have got it  
> wrong....Faraday... Ohm... Voltair...Watt  etc have got it wrong.
> Electricity is purely high pressure smoke....batteries come filled  
> with the high pressure smoke, and whatever is connected to it will  
> function.....
> If the smoke is allowed to escape from the wires....... they stop  
> working...a fact that cannot be argued with?
>
>>>> <DJA727@aol.com> 06/22/03 06:19pm >>>
>
> In a message dated 6/22/2003 9:58:14 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> fillinger@ameritech.net writes:
>
>> My only question is if the alternator or regulator fails, AND there's
>> the smell of smoke and abnormal readings on amps/volts, one should
>> disconnect the battery at the battery relay, not just disconnect the
>> alternator and wait to see if the smoke goes away.  What then will  
>> cause
>> the engine to continue to run?  If one doesn't have a relay, and the
>> smoke is electrical but no circuit protector pops, there's no way to
>> stop the smoke without waiting for the battery to discharge or a
>> necessary circuit to go open through heating.  Then the engine quits.
>>
>
> Fred,
>
> I have designed mine with a rather complicated arrangement of busses,  
> and I
> have my pumps on a "hot" bus for each of two electrical systems. In  
> the event
> of electrical smoke/fire -- the procedure is to shut down the  
> electrical
> system, except for the fuel pumps. The hot busses are protected by  
> slow blow fuses.
> I would be able to get rid of everything except the pumps in the event  
> of an
> electrical fire, and not lose the engine at the same time. I suppose I  
> got
> carried away with all this, but I have to keep my mind working on an  
> involved
> electrical system reminiscent of the Boeing days.
>
> Dave
>
>
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