But the distance from the front of the spar to the rear of the rear spar is only about 24" or so, and I don't see that making a huge difference in starting capacity. ---------------------
I moved my battery around during the early flight staged, and testing, I went from behind the pass seat to firewall aft side, as Mark did. I now have a heavy forward Cof G, I need a min 70kg pilot to fly and I have a no problems with fuel with two in the plane. ( But I have wing tanks, with very little CofG change from full to empty.) Phil Matheson SAAA Ch. 20 http://www.saaa20.org/ VH-PKR Australia EMAIL: phillipmathe...@bigpond.com KR Web Page: www.philskr2.50megs.com ------------------------------------------- Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 1:58 PM Subject: Re: KR> battery location Paul in NH wrote: > Where do most folks place the battery? I was going to throw out that the best place is on the cabin side of the firewall, on top of the firewall shelf where mine is, but then it occured to me that not many people have removable front decks like I do, access would be limited for most. So I guess next best would be up against the front edge of the front spar where it'd be out of the way, and away from the engine heat. But the distance from the front of the spar to the rear of the rear spar is only about 24" or so, and I don't see that making a huge difference in starting capacity. If you are sure your connections are good, and your cables are reasonable size, they ought to work, but if they are old and internally corroded, a new set of cables with very clean connections may do wonders. I forget exactly what my cables are, but I believe I used 4 AWG cable, which appears to be plenty for just about any kind of KR installation (see http://www.e-marine-inc.com/products/alternators/cables.html for more on that). I'm starting a Corvair with a Sentra starter and a 20 Ahr battery, and it works fine, even on 30F days like Saturday when I flew it just after dawn... Mark Langford N56ML "at" hiwaay.net website at http://www.N56ML.com -------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
