roamak wrote:

mtv wrote:

roamak wrote:Is it courier guy with the EarthX? I just ordered the jump start antigravity tonight. Anyone have experience with them in the cold? (As in AK interior cold soaked)? Starting my 170 this afternoon with a Odyssey was much of this and finally some of this .Dont get me wrong, I really like those Odyssey batterys they have yet to leave me stranded. Will be very interesting in the coming years with the EarthX and the cold weather, cold soaked starting. Please keep us informed on the approval of this or if you have to do it after the fact. Thanks! Greg

Where is your battery mounted? Most of the 170's I've been around have a firewall mounted battery box. With that, the battery is never cold, assuming that the engine is pre-heated of course....

BUT, I flew three different Huskys in interior Alaska, all of which had Odyssey batteries, and all were mounted in the standard location...far aft, behind the baggage compartment. None of those airplanes had battery blankets/heaters installed. I parked those airplanes outside in VERY cold temps, and cranked at temps as low as -40. Those Odyssey batteries always cranked enthusiastically, every time, cold or warm.

If you're having cold issues with an Odyssey, I'd check to make sure the battery hasn't been totally discharged and then improperly re-charged or???? Every one I've used has been MUCH better in cold than any "standard" battery. Or, that it's getting fully charged when the alternator (you do have an alternator, not a generator????) is running. I'd bet that battery isn't fully charged, or is damaged somehow.

Before we started using the Odyssey batteries, we put battery heaters on the batteries when operating in the cold. Either a battery blanket heater or one of the battery heater plates that sit under the battery. Those were wired into the engine heater plugs.

Most batteries won't take a charge when they're really cold...or at least take a charge at a very slow rate. So, getting the battery warm really helps to recharge. But, again, we quit using the battery heaters once we switched to the Odyssey. That happened when our maintenance folks installed the first one in my Husky, and forgot to put the battery heater back in. I didn't know that heater was gone, and ran all winter with it before I discovered there was no battery heat. Parked in Fort Yukon and Beaver with plane plugged in at very cold temps and always cranked well. Found out there was no battery heater and never bothered with them again on the Odyssey.

MTV

Not to side track from this thread, but there is a lot more to this story than I may have let on.... -25... poor little honda 2000 had about 10 gallons of 100ll run through her with no spark plug maintenance or a tank of snow machine gas in between..... wouldn't run for crap..... very cold soaked....battled it for the whole weekend....
BUT, when I flipped the the master I had positive oil temps and CHT temps that I was ok with, sorta. So maybe not really the batteries fault, but maybe more mine instead. And after a few tries, she fired, and took a hell of a good charge while climbing from the negative 5k++ density altitude up to the 7.5k area where it started to warm up some.
MTV I have no doubt your feet have been in those bunny boots before

NZMaule wrote:Back to strut cuffs Barnstormer, any chance of a photo of the upper strut cuff installed? I take it these are the new STC'd 185 split cuffs you installed?

bigrenna wrote:...For strobes, dump those power packs and go with brighter LEDs. for sure go with AeroLEDS....

Barnstormer wrote:Flat floor extended baggage kit from Hitchcock Aviation just arrived. Wow, super nice product. Believe I have almost everything now for the first phase of the mods; firewall battery, flat baggage floor, 406 ELT. Decided to replace the two power plants and wingtip strobe/nav and tail strobe with AeroLEDs, need to get those ordered yet.

corefile wrote:

Barnstormer wrote:Flat floor extended baggage kit from Hitchcock Aviation just arrived. Wow, super nice product. Believe I have almost everything now for the first phase of the mods; firewall battery, flat baggage floor, 406 ELT. Decided to replace the two power plants and wingtip strobe/nav and tail strobe with AeroLEDs, need to get those ordered yet.

Wow that is nice! I like it much better then the Selkirk one I have. Wish they covered the 182 with their STC.

Renegade wrote:Once you get her all done just let me know when you want to sell it. Husky is getting to be too small for the growing family

Gunny wrote:Phil-

It is fun doing the refurb.... but lets keep it between ourselves;) Good idea on the BNC connector. I'm replacing my old ELT with an E-04 as well, might just do the same thing.

gunny

Renegade wrote:...Need to get out and do some practice...

bigrenna wrote:...I would recommend you guys use a true 90 degree connector and not an adapter.

mtv wrote:I too looked at that suppressor and groaned. I don't have electrics, so no sweat..... That said, I wonder if you could install the suppressor on the ELT end of the antenna cable?? I'd call ACK and ask a tech.

MTV