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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:21:15 -0500
From: Ernest Christley <echristl@cisco.com>
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To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Battery voltage (was: Racetech RV6A Forced  Landing)
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> > At 05:11 PM 2/16/2005 +1000, you wrote:
> If you continue to
> > draw 200 amps for 60 seconds (at 77 degrees F) the battery voltage 
> will sag
> > down to 7.2 volts.
> >
> >          If you do crank for this long, it might take as long as ten
> > minutes for the battery to charge back up to 13 volts. (Of course this
> > depends on the size of your alternator and the draw from other loads 
> on the
> > system.)


If you DO continue to crank it this long, let's hope an A&P comes out 
from somewhere and bops you in the back of the head.

I've seen people abuse starters this way.  Poor starter.