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Rich Brazell
 Post subject: Re: New Battery
PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:38 pm 
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Trust me that "clicking sound" of the Hobbs meter will get your attention ! :) Inside the cockpit the sound is amplified ! " "Click" , Click , Click ! BOOM !

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shinton
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 5:54 am 
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I leave the strobes on all the time. That way if I've forgotten the battery switch, everyone knows! It's kept me from walking away with the battery on a number of times.
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Bill Williams
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 6:10 am 
I solved my problem of leaving the master on by installing a aux. start plug and carrying jumper cables under the seat. I finally took the jumper cables out about a year ago.
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SHIPCHIEF
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 12:40 pm 
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Isn't that like keeping an old single wide mobile home out in the field to keep the tornados away from the house? ::)

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Lou
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 1:41 pm 
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I do recognize that I may have other issues, (Rich, I

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Rich Brazell
 Post subject: Re: New Battery
PostPosted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 5:42 pm 
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Never made it to Fla Bob...FOG ! >:(

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Lou
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 12:45 pm 
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turned out to be not so good of a weekend for flying. I made it all the way from SBD to FlaBob and made it in nuder the muck for a slow turnout but the chow was good. I saw a WACO staggerwing cabin there that was TOO clean to eat off of.

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Ron Schlittenhardt
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:09 am 
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My Gill g35 battery is about to give up, was curious what other battery is utilized besides the firewall mount?. Mine is curently under baggage compartment.

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Fraser MacPhee
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:01 am 
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I had two Gills go south in two years, and at $235 plus shipping a pop, that's unacceptable - here is what I replaced them with:

http://store.batteryspecialists.com/ps12350.html

It is 3.5 pounds lighter than the Gill, so I had to add a sniglet of weight - it also is slightly different dimensionally (but still fit the battery box just fine) and has the terminals reversed, but that was an easy fix - it is also a years worth of socks, underwear and a large bottle of Maker's Mark less in cost. So far many a winter start and strong.

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Ron Schlittenhardt
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 11:35 am 
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Thanks Mr MacPhee...really appreciate it!

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Rich Brazell
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 10:46 pm 
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Good News FlaBob flyin/breakfast is every third Saturday ! ;) BOOM !

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