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				 Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:05 pm    Post subject: Lithium battery on the firewall | 
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				Depends on what equipment you have. My glass panels draw about 3.7 amps 
 each. My transponder draw is 0.1 to 0.2 amps. My GTN650 is almost 4 
 amps, while the SL30 is 0.2-0.3 amps receiving and maybe 1.5 
 transmitting. My LED strobes and nav lights are a fraction of the old 
 incandescent nav lights and flash tube strobes. I figure  I can fly on 
 one glass panel and the SL-30 for nav if needed. Given a battery 
 capacity of over 25 amp hours should give me 3-4 hours in theory. I'd be 
 happy with half that.
 
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				 Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:08 pm    Post subject: Lithium battery on the firewall | 
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				Another thing to consider is lithium batteries are notoriously terrible in cold weather. When I was racing motorcycles I had to warm the battery up before it would think about cranking on a cold morning. I would probably install some sort of battery heater to ensure it's operating at max efficiency when it's started for the first time during a cold spell
 
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 On Aug 4, 2014, at 9:46 PM, Ed Kranz <ed.kranz(at)gmail.com (ed.kranz(at)gmail.com)> wrote:
 [quote]You bring up a point I've seen a few people write about, and I admit, I'm not sure I fully understand.
 What do we really need starter battery capacity for? I'm planning on a primary and secondary alternator, as well as a backup TCW battery for critical avionics (PFD, GTN, etc). Possibly a second TCW backup battery for electronic ignition, depending on what I decide to do with that. The capacity of the starter battery will become the 4th redundancy in an electrical system failure. 
  
 
 Other than an electrical emergency, isn't the ship's battery capacity mostly just useful for starting the motor? I don't know how many amp-hours is used during, say a 10 second crank. 
 
  
 
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  A couple of things come to mind as I am working through this same issue.
  
  The EarthX 36 is LOWER reserve/usable capacity than the PC925. They do not recommend this as a swap for the 925.
  
  I currently have an EarthX 48E sitting on my bench waiting for install. However, my plane is to install it in the tail in the original battery mount. My intent is to remove the dead weight that I can't manage and the impact on CG. I already fly with a 25lb bag of shot when flying solo, so I can easily bump that up to accomodate the 20lb loss. But when I am flying with a full bird, it then becomes weight I can move and affect CG and loading much better. I've already had issues where the plane was loaded to the point that I was close to dropping the tail, so the ability to move that big of a weight moment is very helpful.
   
  EarthX also estimates their batteries to be about an 8 year lifetime, so considerably longer than the Odyssey PC925. So on a yearly basis the numbers should work out to be about the same.
  
  
  
  
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				 Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 8:09 pm    Post subject: Lithium battery on the firewall | 
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				I suppose I can throw in my .02 also, although with depreciation
 it may only be worth .01.
 
 I've read the other comments so far, and many people brought
 up good points.  First, I know of at least one other person who
 lives up in the midwest (I can't remember who, but I remember
 the conversation) who put a 680 in and found it wasn't quite enough
 crank when very cold as it gets up here.  They ended up swapping
 for a 925.  So at the very least, I would buy a larger battery than
 gives that equivalent crank in the winter.  And don't discount how
 LONG it can crank the engine also...if you're flooded in a hot start
 situation in the summer, it isn't inconceivable that you could end
 up cranking too many times to get started with a smaller battery.
 Please, I don't want to re-hash the old hot start procedures
 in this thread.
 
 I also have not warmed myself up to the idea of dual EI's.  I certainly
 think it can be done to a fairly good level, but as of yet I am
 not willing to put all of my eggs into the EI basket.  Having a mag
 is still the most long-term proven thing to get you by when have
 zero battery...and no, I'm not considering the phantom p-mag.
 
 I also was lured, early on, into the "lets just buy another alternator"
 concept.  Check my panel, it's even got Aux Alternator silkscreened on 
 it. It took me a while to lose all of that crazyness.  Sometimes I
 think too many people don't follow the K.I.S.S. principle and not only
 does it cost them build time, but it costs them lots of money, and it
 can make their airplane more complex to even understand, even for the
 builder who built it.  It's just yet one more system that can fail,
 one more piece of hardware that can leave you stranded, and one more
 pile of paper out of your wallet.
 
 I liked my aux battery pack, and my PC925 sized battery, and I knew
 that would give me comfortable range.  If I remember right, my Aux
 will run me an hour or so.  That's without even relying on the 925.
 1 hour in the RV-10 can easily get you over 150nm.  Do you think
 you can find an airport you can successfully fly an approach to,
 somewhere in a 100nm radius of where you are?  I criscrossed the
 country a few times and I can't remember ever being more than about
 50 miles from an airport.  I've probably got over 2 hours of
 avionics time, if I shed some load, so the batteries alone will
 get me on the ground.  A dead alternator isn't that big of a deal
 if you catch it.  A dead battery isn't either, if you have a working
 alternator.  What's the chance that you'll fail both at the same
 time?  Not much.  And if you have aux batteries, you STILL have
 juice.  And, take it one more step....what's the chance that even
 IF you fail an alternator and battery, that you'll be in IMC
 on that flight.  In over 1000 hours, I've found IMC to be much more
 elusive than VMC.  So when you start playing odds, you're looking
 at some pretty slim chances of losing everything.  I personally believe
 that a fairly simple system, will likely be more reliable in the
 long run.  And, to cap it off, I'm also not opposed to landing on the
 road 2 miles off my wing if all heck breaks loose.  My original
 intention was to fly for a bit, and add the aux alt after I saw
 what I had.  After a bit, I started to see that I had just gone a
 little off the deep end, and was more comfortable with just a
 PC925 and aux batteries.
 
 As far as lithium batteries go, I drive one every day to work,
 and I'm comfortable with that, but I've watched enough youtube
 vids and read enough on the dreamliner to know that I'm not going
 to be an early adopter of any Lithium battery.  I know that the
 single most impossible situation to survive in an airplane is
 not that the battery will die flying IFR, but that there will be
 a fire in the cockpit, or on the airframe.  If it was a fuel
 fire, I'd be MORE comfortable, because you may have a chance of
 making it out after cranking the red arrow on the tunnel top.  But
 if your battery does decide to smoke or burn, there is really not
 anything you will do to put it out.  So if you go Lithium
 technologies, also consider the Halon fire extinguisher system
 to put near it.  I wouldn't put it in MY plane right now, when I'm
 flying the family...but if you do, take every precaution.  Maybe
 after 6 years more of experience, when they're flying in 3000 other
 eager beaver's planes, and are more widely adopted by GA manufacturers,
 I'll change my mind, but in some things, being an early adopter isn't
 my forte'.  Fuel systems especially, but anything that can cause
 a fire...definitely.
 
 Regarding CG, if you DO go lithium, I think the firewall would
 be a good place.  Lose the aux alternator and you will still be
 fine for CG.  Trust me, when you're alone you can always add
 baggage ballast (although I personally feel it's unnecessary), but
 I have many many more hours where I've FILLED the tail with gear
 and could USE the extra CG range aft than I have where I could
 have used ballast.  I probably fly 10x as much where I carry
 lots of baggage than when I carry none...and when I have none, I
 still have my tool bag which is maybe 8-10 lbs, and tie downs that
 are 8lbs too.  Also, if you put the battery on the forward side
 of the firewall, I think that would be better, if you're using
 lithium.  Better yet would be to build a release system into
 the battery so if it does start on fire, you can jettison it.  But
 putting it FWF may keep that fire from bringing you down...maybe.
 Either way, I think CG is a non-issue...you could do a PC925
 in the rear, or a Lithium in rear or front, and it just doesn't
 matter.  The Dan Lloyd references don't count for anything, unless
 you plan to crimp your battery terminals with a pliers...which
 I'm sure is not the case.  Bad crimps are what was found that brought
 that plane down.
 
 I suppose since I already wrote too much,  can keep going with one
 more thing...load shedding.  What *really* is minimal equipment if you
 have an issue while flying...even IFR or VFR.  Do you really CARE if
 you have a transponder on if you are looking to keep your last bit
 of juice?  I don't think I do. Do you need strobes, or nav lights?
 I don't. Maybe a landing light, 1 nav/com, and 1 GPS would be nice.
 I'd want attitude/altitude at minimum too.  I don't know all about
 the G3X, but I'd think you could have plenty with one screen,
 and the associated sensors.  One thing I don't know is, do you even
 need the GTN to have power?  On the Chelton, each box will work
 independently if it gets GPS signal from the GADAHRS.  If the G3X
 is the same, maybe you don't even need the GTN.  Certainly if it
 is VFR daytime (the most common type of flying) when it happens,
 an ipad would suffice as the entire avionics suite, with your eyes
 out the window.  You don't even need airspeed indication to fly
 the airplane.
 
 So that's a lot to digest and think through.  Some of the other big
 benefits to following the K.I.S.S. principle are: lower cost,
 easier to build, quicker to complete, less to troubleshoot later.
 
 Tim
 
 On 8/4/2014 9:31 PM, David Saylor wrote:
  	  | Quote: | 	 		   I think the idea is that if you use a starting battery that's a little
  bigger than you need for starting, you can also use it as one of the
  redundancies.  So in your case if you use something with the capacity of
  a 925, you might do without the extra alternator.
 
  Another reason for extra starting capacity is that sometimes starting
  can be a challenge.  Yes, good maintenance and EI can make starting
  easier, but extra capacity can be a big help too.  I've learned that my
  engine, for example, usually fires on a hot start about four blades
  after I hear the starter start to complain.  And, I can run the panel
  for a few minutes with any anxiety about what I'm doing to the battery.
    So a little extra is nice to have.  So is a ground power plug, big
  enough for starting.
 
  Ed, keep in mind that you're proposing a fairly complex system with a
  lot of interconnects and maybe a few unknowns.  Ideally each component
  is transparent and just "works" but in my experience it's usually not
  that simple.
 
  --Dave
 
  PP 60A, PC 925, TCW backup for AP & GNS, Internal batts for EFIS 1, 2, &
  GPS 2
  On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Ed Kranz <ed.kranz(at)gmail.com
  <mailto:ed.kranz(at)gmail.com>> wrote:
 
      You bring up a point I've seen a few people write about, and I
      admit, I'm not sure I fully understand.
 
      What do we really need starter battery capacity for? I'm planning on
      a primary and secondary alternator, as well as a backup TCW battery
      for critical avionics (PFD, GTN, etc). Possibly a second TCW backup
      battery for electronic ignition, depending on what I decide to do
      with that. The capacity of the starter battery will become the 4th
      redundancy in an electrical system failure.
 
      Other than an electrical emergency, isn't the ship's battery
      capacity mostly just useful for starting the motor? I don't know how
      many amp-hours is used during, say a 10 second crank.
 
 
      On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:24 PM, charliewaffles <mcooper(at)live.com
      <mailto:mcooper(at)live.com>> wrote:
 
          
          <mcooper(at)live.com <mailto:mcooper(at)live.com>>
 
          A couple of things come to mind as I am working through this
          same issue.
 
          The EarthX 36 is LOWER reserve/usable capacity than the PC925.
          They do not recommend this as a swap for the 925.
 
          I currently have an EarthX 48E sitting on my bench waiting for
          install. However, my plane is to install it in the tail in the
          original battery mount. My intent is to remove the dead weight
          that I can't manage and the impact on CG. I already fly with a
          25lb bag of shot when flying solo, so I can easily bump that up
          to accomodate the 20lb loss. But when I am flying with a full
          bird, it then becomes weight I can move and affect CG and
          loading much better. I've already had issues where the plane was
          loaded to the point that I was close to dropping the tail, so
          the ability to move that big of a weight moment is very helpful.
 
          EarthX also estimates their batteries to be about an 8 year
          lifetime, so considerably longer than the Odyssey PC925. So on a
          yearly basis the numbers should work out to be about the same.
 
 
          Read this topic online here:
 
          http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=427987#427987
 
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				Finally!!!!!!!!!
 
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  something to replace Primer Wars!!!!
 
 On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Tim Olson <Tim(at)myrv10.com (Tim(at)myrv10.com)> wrote:
  [quote]--> RV10-List message posted by: Tim Olson <Tim(at)myrv10.com (Tim(at)myrv10.com)>
   
  I suppose I can throw in my .02 also, although with depreciation
  it may only be worth .01.
  
  I've read the other comments so far, and many people brought
  up good points.  First, I know of at least one other person who
  lives up in the midwest (I can't remember who, but I remember
  the conversation) who put a 680 in and found it wasn't quite enough
  crank when very cold as it gets up here.  They ended up swapping
  for a 925.  So at the very least, I would buy a larger battery than
  gives that equivalent crank in the winter.  And don't discount how
  LONG it can crank the engine also...if you're flooded in a hot start
  situation in the summer, it isn't inconceivable that you could end
  up cranking too many times to get started with a smaller battery.
  Please, I don't want to re-hash the old hot start procedures
  in this thread.
  
  I also have not warmed myself up to the idea of dual EI's.  I certainly
  think it can be done to a fairly good level, but as of yet I am
  not willing to put all of my eggs into the EI basket.  Having a mag
  is still the most long-term proven thing to get you by when have
  zero battery...and no, I'm not considering the phantom p-mag.
  
  I also was lured, early on, into the "lets just buy another alternator"
  concept.  Check my panel, it's even got Aux Alternator silkscreened on it. It took me a while to lose all of that crazyness.  Sometimes I
  think too many people don't follow the K.I.S.S. principle and not only
  does it cost them build time, but it costs them lots of money, and it
  can make their airplane more complex to even understand, even for the
  builder who built it.  It's just yet one more system that can fail,
  one more piece of hardware that can leave you stranded, and one more
  pile of paper out of your wallet.
  
  I liked my aux battery pack, and my PC925 sized battery, and I knew
  that would give me comfortable range.  If I remember right, my Aux
  will run me an hour or so.  That's without even relying on the 925.
  1 hour in the RV-10 can easily get you over 150nm.  Do you think
  you can find an airport you can successfully fly an approach to,
  somewhere in a 100nm radius of where you are?  I criscrossed the
  country a few times and I can't remember ever being more than about
  50 miles from an airport.  I've probably got over 2 hours of
  avionics time, if I shed some load, so the batteries alone will
  get me on the ground.  A dead alternator isn't that big of a deal
  if you catch it.  A dead battery isn't either, if you have a working
  alternator.  What's the chance that you'll fail both at the same
  time?  Not much.  And if you have aux batteries, you STILL have
  juice.  And, take it one more step....what's the chance that even
  IF you fail an alternator and battery, that you'll be in IMC
  on that flight.  In over 1000 hours, I've found IMC to be much more
  elusive than VMC.  So when you start playing odds, you're looking
  at some pretty slim chances of losing everything.  I personally believe
  that a fairly simple system, will likely be more reliable in the
  long run.  And, to cap it off, I'm also not opposed to landing on the
  road 2 miles off my wing if all heck breaks loose.  My original
  intention was to fly for a bit, and add the aux alt after I saw
  what I had.  After a bit, I started to see that I had just gone a
  little off the deep end, and was more comfortable with just a
  PC925 and aux batteries.
  
  As far as lithium batteries go, I drive one every day to work,
  and I'm comfortable with that, but I've watched enough youtube
  vids and read enough on the dreamliner to know that I'm not going
  to be an early adopter of any Lithium battery.  I know that the
  single most impossible situation to survive in an airplane is
  not that the battery will die flying IFR, but that there will be
  a fire in the cockpit, or on the airframe.  If it was a fuel
  fire, I'd be MORE comfortable, because you may have a chance of
  making it out after cranking the red arrow on the tunnel top.  But
  if your battery does decide to smoke or burn, there is really not
  anything you will do to put it out.  So if you go Lithium
  technologies, also consider the Halon fire extinguisher system
  to put near it.  I wouldn't put it in MY plane right now, when I'm
  flying the family...but if you do, take every precaution.  Maybe
  after 6 years more of experience, when they're flying in 3000 other
  eager beaver's planes, and are more widely adopted by GA manufacturers,
  I'll change my mind, but in some things, being an early adopter isn't
  my forte'.  Fuel systems especially, but anything that can cause
  a fire...definitely.
  
  Regarding CG, if you DO go lithium, I think the firewall would
  be a good place.  Lose the aux alternator and you will still be
  fine for CG.  Trust me, when you're alone you can always add
  baggage ballast (although I personally feel it's unnecessary), but
  I have many many more hours where I've FILLED the tail with gear
  and could USE the extra CG range aft than I have where I could
  have used ballast.  I probably fly 10x as much where I carry
  lots of baggage than when I carry none...and when I have none, I
  still have my tool bag which is maybe 8-10 lbs, and tie downs that
  are 8lbs too.  Also, if you put the battery on the forward side
  of the firewall, I think that would be better, if you're using
  lithium.  Better yet would be to build a release system into
  the battery so if it does start on fire, you can jettison it.  But
  putting it FWF may keep that fire from bringing you down...maybe.
  Either way, I think CG is a non-issue...you could do a PC925
  in the rear, or a Lithium in rear or front, and it just doesn't
  matter.  The Dan Lloyd references don't count for anything, unless
  you plan to crimp your battery terminals with a pliers...which
  I'm sure is not the case.  Bad crimps are what was found that brought
  that plane down.
  
  I suppose since I already wrote too much,  can keep going with one
  more thing...load shedding.  What *really* is minimal equipment if you
  have an issue while flying...even IFR or VFR.  Do you really CARE if
  you have a transponder on if you are looking to keep your last bit
  of juice?  I don't think I do. Do you need strobes, or nav lights?
  I don't. Maybe a landing light, 1 nav/com, and 1 GPS would be nice.
  I'd want attitude/altitude at minimum too.  I don't know all about
  the G3X, but I'd think you could have plenty with one screen,
  and the associated sensors.  One thing I don't know is, do you even
  need the GTN to have power?  On the Chelton, each box will work
  independently if it gets GPS signal from the GADAHRS.  If the G3X
  is the same, maybe you don't even need the GTN.  Certainly if it
  is VFR daytime (the most common type of flying) when it happens,
  an ipad would suffice as the entire avionics suite, with your eyes
  out the window.  You don't even need airspeed indication to fly
  the airplane.
  
  So that's a lot to digest and think through.  Some of the other big
  benefits to following the K.I.S.S. principle are: lower cost,
  easier to build, quicker to complete, less to troubleshoot later.
  
  Tim
  
  On 8/4/2014 9:31 PM, David Saylor wrote:
   	  | Quote: | 	 		   I think the idea is that if you use a starting battery that's a little
  bigger than you need for starting, you can also use it as one of the
  redundancies.  So in your case if you use something with the capacity of
  a 925, you might do without the extra alternator.
  
  Another reason for extra starting capacity is that sometimes starting
  can be a challenge.  Yes, good maintenance and EI can make starting
  easier, but extra capacity can be a big help too.  I've learned that my
  engine, for example, usually fires on a hot start about four blades
  after I hear the starter start to complain.  And, I can run the panel
  for a few minutes with any anxiety about what I'm doing to the battery.
    So a little extra is nice to have.  So is a ground power plug, big
  enough for starting.
  
  Ed, keep in mind that you're proposing a fairly complex system with a
  lot of interconnects and maybe a few unknowns.  Ideally each component
  is transparent and just "works" but in my experience it's usually not
  that simple.
  
  --Dave
  
  PP 60A, PC 925, TCW backup for AP & GNS, Internal batts for EFIS 1, 2, &
  GPS 2
  
  
  
  
  
  
  On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Ed Kranz <ed.kranz(at)gmail.com (ed.kranz(at)gmail.com)
  <mailto:ed.kranz(at)gmail.com (ed.kranz(at)gmail.com)>> wrote:
  
      You bring up a point I've seen a few people write about, and I
      admit, I'm not sure I fully understand.
  
      What do we really need starter battery capacity for? I'm planning on
      a primary and secondary alternator, as well as a backup TCW battery
      for critical avionics (PFD, GTN, etc). Possibly a second TCW backup
      battery for electronic ignition, depending on what I decide to do
      with that. The capacity of the starter battery will become the 4th
      redundancy in an electrical system failure.
  
      Other than an electrical emergency, isn't the ship's battery
      capacity mostly just useful for starting the motor? I don't know how
      many amp-hours is used during, say a 10 second crank.
  
  
  
  
      On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:24 PM, charliewaffles <mcooper(at)live.com (mcooper(at)live.com)
      <mailto:mcooper(at)live.com (mcooper(at)live.com)>> wrote:
  
          --> RV10-List message posted by: "charliewaffles"
          <mcooper(at)live.com (mcooper(at)live.com) <mailto:mcooper(at)live.com (mcooper(at)live.com)>>
  
          A couple of things come to mind as I am working through this
          same issue.
  
          The EarthX 36 is LOWER reserve/usable capacity than the PC925.
          They do not recommend this as a swap for the 925.
  
          I currently have an EarthX 48E sitting on my bench waiting for
          install. However, my plane is to install it in the tail in the
          original battery mount. My intent is to remove the dead weight
          that I can't manage and the impact on CG. I already fly with a
          25lb bag of shot when flying solo, so I can easily bump that up
          to accomodate the 20lb loss. But when I am flying with a full
          bird, it then becomes weight I can move and affect CG and
          loading much better. I've already had issues where the plane was
          loaded to the point that I was close to dropping the tail, so
          the ability to move that big of a weight moment is very helpful.
  
          EarthX also estimates their batteries to be about an 8 year
          lifetime, so considerably longer than the Odyssey PC925. So on a
          yearly basis the numbers should work out to be about the same.
  
  
  
  
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				It’s been bugging me but what primer would one use to paint a LifePo battery?  J.
  
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