Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #17407
From: <CavittP@aol.com>
Sender: Marvin Kaye <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Aircraft Battery / Starter
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 20:58:01 -0500
To: <lml>
In my L-235/320 I have a B&C electrical system including 40A alternator, solid-state voltage regulator and one of their sealed batteries.  I purchased the battery 6 years ago and it's been flying in my plane for 1000 hours over the past 5 1/2 years.  Still no sign of giving up the ghost...  In my old Cherokee, I was lucky for the battery to last 2 years.  Anybody else having such fabulous luck with their B&C battery?   Should I be getting worried?

I also have a Sky-Tec HT starter.  It normally works fine, but on occasion when it's hot it sometimes fails to start.  I'll get a high draw on the ammeter then the control CB pops.  When that happens, it wont go until it's cooled off.  Sometimes I resort to hosing off the engine to get it to cool sufficiently to get the starter to do it's thing...  Anybody else have this experience with their starter?

Pete cavitt - N320PL
619-701-0784
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