Battery

This thing is neat, it is light for the cranking amps it produces
and has check valves built into the vent caps so that, in the event you tip it, it doesn't leak acid.

On the outer rear side of the bottom of the battery tray on the frame be sure to grind off the corner as much as you can to keep that sharp corner from digging a hole in your tub. 

Ours was very close fitting and we had to take the tub back off to grind it. 

There is no harm to doing it so just to be safe grind it down before you place your tub.  I've heard of some builders having to rework their tray so they could have a battery box so check with your local FAA Dude/Dudette just in case so you don't end up cutting and rewelding one in after you have painted the frame.

Be sure not to use anything more than a charger that puts out more than 2 amps or less
or you'll be cleaning battery acid. We put out 10 amp charger on ours for just a couple minutes and it bubbled like crazy spitting out acid all over the top of the battery. We never were able to get all the stains off it left on the top of it.

Every 6 months or so check and log your battery voltage.

I'm told that they will loose about 1 volt per year and once it gets down so far you need to change it or you'll be playing with jumper cables alot.

We installed a port
to hooking up a battery maintenance charger and so far our battery is doing fine. This port also works as a 12 Volt power outlet.

New Battery

May 8th 2004

We installed a new battery because we began to get low voltage error codes from the fadec after startup.

The original one that came with our ship worked great and didn't seem to have any problems starting the ship and still maintained good voltage readings but it must of been getting weak to have the that happening. The battery is supposed to only have a 2 year life span so we certainly aren't complaining since our old one has went in excess of 4.

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