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Topic: Battery power

Posted By: zmanzank
Subject: Battery power
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2021 at 10:44am

Shore power works great

Check convertor per manufacturer everything checks out ok.

Switch to battery get low or no power. Hit light or lift and might get squawk in radio.

Tested battery - full power. Installed new battery same thing happens.

Checked all exposed wire connections.

Acts like a short or cross wire??

2019 R pod

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Posted By: seafans
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2021 at 11:36pm

There is a cross polarity or battery circuit protector in the fuse/ circuit braker panel. The fuse is green in color. 30 amp. Please check the fuse.

Posted By: jato
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2021 at 5:25am

Originally posted by seafans

There is a cross polarity or battery circuit protector in the fuse/ circuit braker panel. The fuse is green in color. 30 amp. Please check the fuse.

Also while looking at your fuse/circuit breaker panel note any red lights glowing, this will indicate a short in the corresponding fuse that will need replacement. Good idea to carry a few extra fuses of each amp size your panel has. I carry extra 5, 10, 15, 20 and 40 amp fuses. Can purchase at any auto or hardware store.

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Posted By: offgrid
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2021 at 8:51am

Check for voltage at the DC panel on the battery side of the 40 amp fuses when you have shore power disconnected.

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1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft
2015 Rpod 179 - sold

Posted By: TheBum
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2021 at 10:57am

Originally posted by jato

Also while looking at your fuse/circuit breaker panel note any red lights glowing, this will indicate a short in the corresponding fuse that will need replacement. Good idea to carry a few extra fuses of each amp size your panel has. I carry extra 5, 10, 15, 20 and 40 amp fuses. Can purchase at any auto or hardware store.

If an LED is glowing and there is no fuse in the associated slot, it's probably a spare circuit. My 179 had at least two spare circuits, one of which I turned into an inverter circuit. Also,as a technicality, a fuse doesn't normally short when it burns out, it opens.

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Alan
2022 R-Pod 196 "RaptoRPod"
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Posted By: offgrid
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2021 at 3:02pm

The way the blown fuse indicator works is by placing an led (with a current limiting resistor) in parallel with the fuse. So if the fuse is good the led sees no voltage and doesn't light. If the fuse blows and there is still a load on the line connected to battery negative then the led will see voltage and light. But if there is no load on the line there is no return path to battery negative for the led so it w wont light. So if you see a red led then the fuse is blown. If you don't see a red led then the fuse may or may not be blown depending on the status of the load on that circuit. That's when having either great eyesight or a multimeter is handy.

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1994 Chinook Concourse
1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft
2015 Rpod 179 - sold