Hey Donnie,
? ?I bought a standard last summer, to say the least the wiring job was not to my satisfaction. ?I am a Electrical / Electronics professional and I am very OCD about wiring. ?When I bought my plane there was no battery. ?But I spec'ed out an alternate to the Odyssey 680. ?Now I will probably get flamed for this but I am going to write about what I have going on anyway. ?If you want to pay nearly $200 for a battery then be my guest. ?
A little background; ?I use this battery to turn over my Corvair in another plane of mine, with absolutely no issues. ?The one in my X-Air I took out of my Corvair powered plane with an age of nearly 2 years.
Powersonic PS-12180NB
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On my X-Air, I used the air frame as common, I ran a #4 welder cable directly to the starter solenoid (really fine strands, large current capacity). ?Then a jumper from the airframe to the engine. ?This battery with the correction of the battery cables spins my 2si 690 like there is no tomorrow. ?All in all I have about $75 in the "upgrade", that is ~$50 for the battery shipped, the welding cable I had, and the 2" galv conduit hanger I used to connect the battery neg to the main tube. ?I have not to this day exhausted the battery due to a mis-behaving engine. ?It sat in the hangar all winter with no battery maintainer; at one point we wasn't able to get out to the hangar for 3 months, when we did, the engine started without a hitch.
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