- 1. Europa-List: Aft battery (score: 1)
- Author: Fergus Kyle <VE3LVO@rac.ca>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 09:23:16
- I seem to recall someone placing his/her battery aft to balance the aircraft. I would like to ask if that someone would be kind enough to describe how the square-type item is mounted in the roundie-k
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- 2. Re: Europa-List: Aft battery (score: 1)
- Author: Frans Veldman <frans@paardnatuurlijk.nl>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:14:12
- I made an aluminium tray for the batteries, that "hangs" on the bagage floor. This tray is also the mount for the starter relay, and mass rail. The bagage floor is stronger than the fuselage at that
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2010-01/msg00022.html (8,233 bytes)
- 3. Re: Europa-List: Aft battery (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Borger <rlborger@mac.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 12:08:19
- Ferg, Go to my build web site, album Year#7 Q3 2008, page 5 and you will see a couple pics on how I handled the situation. My friend Tommy made the base and strap for the battery so it is metal. When
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2010-01/msg00023.html (8,837 bytes)
- 4. Re: Europa-List: Aft battery (score: 1)
- Author: rparigor@suffolk.lib.ny.us
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:41:19
- Hi Ferg "someone placing his/her battery aft to balance the aircraft." Here is info on my aft battery install: http://www.europaowners.org/forums/gallery2.php?g2_itemId=30710 Note the "Kool" balsa ba
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2010-01/msg00024.html (8,225 bytes)
- 5. RE: Europa-List: Aft battery (score: 1)
- Author: Robert C Harrison <ptag.dev@tiscali.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 22:23:08
- Hi! Ferg Happy New Year . I started with a serious weight and balance issue with the Jabiru 6 seemingly needing the battery mounted aft. I made a base out of foam and glassed it all to the floor with
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2010-01/msg00029.html (8,828 bytes)
- 6. Re: Europa-List: Aft battery (score: 1)
- Author: A B Milne <milneab@btinternet.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 08:13:25
- Aft batteryMake a battery box with a rim (glass and resin - I used the transit box as a form) and bond it to the baggage bay floor clear of the flap tube so that a hatch is the lid . That saves wrink
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2010-01/msg00033.html (8,416 bytes)
- 7. Re: Europa-List: Aft battery (score: 1)
- Author: David Joyce <davidjoyce@doctors.org.uk>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 11:37:57
- Ferg, It seems to me there are real advantages in having the battery forward (as Bob Harrison + convenient access). Even with a 914, a Woodcomp SR3000, a 17 amp hr Odyysey, and a very full panel, I f
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2010-01/msg00034.html (8,628 bytes)
- 8. Re: Europa-List: Aft battery (score: 1)
- Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 12:57:24
- Ferg you are not overweight so I agree with David Graham
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2010-01/msg00035.html (7,907 bytes)
- 9. Re: Europa-List: Aft battery (score: 1)
- Author: rparigor@suffolk.lib.ny.us
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 13:21:57
- Hi David I calculated CG with battery mounted onfirewall versus aft mounting butting baggage ribs. Even with using number 4 copper Tefzel cable there is a weight savings with an aft battery. I have m
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2010-01/msg00037.html (8,957 bytes)
- 10. Re: Europa-List: Aft battery (score: 1)
- Author: Frans Veldman <frans@paardnatuurlijk.nl>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 22:57:56
- I have an aft placed battery (well, actually two), and the wires needed weigh closer to 1 lbs than 2 lbs (and not even substracting the weight of the wires you would need anyway with a forward placed
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2010-01/msg00040.html (9,144 bytes)
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