X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.48] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4c2a) with ESMTP id 4832149 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:50:12 -0500 Received-SPF: error receiver=logan.com; client-ip=76.96.30.48; envelope-from=gregw@onestopdesign.biz Received: from omta24.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.92]) by qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 27pc1g0011zF43QA57pc03; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:49:36 +0000 Received: from gregiv ([24.6.73.102]) by omta24.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 27pb1g0092CQjog8k7pbq0; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:49:36 +0000 Message-ID: <362EEBD33C454AAD99C5071D80FB37E0@yosemite.onestopdesign.biz> From: "Greg Ward" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" References: Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Back up air turbine Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:54:10 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 Not to mention Ice, drag, exposed wiring, not that many amps, and being a tad bit overpriced. Greg Ward Legacy 20B, N178RG Still around and in progress...... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ernest Christley" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 7:37 PM Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Back up air turbine On 01/30/2011 06:50 PM, Dustin Lobner wrote: > The small version (6 amps) is $800. That's not (as) bad. > > Dustin Once you add in the complexity and maintenance requirements, and then compare it to the utility and cost of an equal weight of lead acid battery, I would say that it is just as bad. -- Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ Archive and UnSub: http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html