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16th Apr 2015, 21:45

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dixi188

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Back in the 1980s the two Hunters at Hurn (G-HUNT and G-BOOM) had ex Comet electric start systems. IIRC these were 112v DC using 4 batteries in the gun pack with a rotary contactor to change them to parallel and charge them off the 28v bus.

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