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Old 30th June 2003 | 03:55
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A and C
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the only way to be sure !

Following a major avionic upgrade on my Robin I checked the life of the battery first the whole electrical system was run for 5 min and then the system was "load shed " leaving only the HSI , GPS , NAV/COM 1 and the transponder running in avionic stack.

The nav and cockpit lighting was running along with the T/C and all the cockpit indicators.

After 40 min RMI , ADF and DME were switched back on for 5 min and all functioned for the test.

The test was ment to simulate an alternator failure in IMC , the load shedding drills being done and then the minimum equipment being used for an instument approach.

The battery was fully charged and the OAT was about 5 C.
I would guess that the battery had about another 5 min before things started to fail and I suspect that the COM TX would be the first thing to fail.
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