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01-DEC-2014 jCross

December 2, 2014

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Sometimes I don't read things too carefully, and worse yet what I did read I forget. Case in point is the Concorde battery in the Cessna. In the back of my mind I remembered some admonition to not charge at a rate of more than C/10. That is amp hour capacity divided by ten. Well, I spent quite a bit of time reading the Instructions for Continued Airworthiness (ICA) which is the FAA name for a maintenance manual. Sure enough the C/10 limitation was there but only if it did not pass a capacity test. So I made the assumption that it passed the capacity test and charged the thing at 14.125 volts constant potential. It worked. I figured that battery took about the 24 amp hours it was rated at. We will see when we start it.

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jCross11-Dec-2014 16:53
point well taken.
In this case the assumption
was proven by the charging
result.
John Cooper11-Dec-2014 13:52
Captain Smith made the assumption there were no icebergs in front of his ship, The Titanic. I tend not to make assumptions about things that might possibly affect my staying alive.