{"id":1907,"date":"2015-01-18T19:18:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T01:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2015-01-18T19:18:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T01:18:53","slug":"13-6-1-battery-hold-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/18\/13-6-1-battery-hold-down\/","title":{"rendered":"13.6.1 Battery Hold-Down"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 49 of 67 in the series 13 - Electrical \/ Instruments<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The battery that I have been using is a used one which came out of another airplane.\u00a0 The dimensions are pretty standard so I used it as a template when I was building the battery tray.<\/p>\n

It was a standard flooded cell, lead\/acid battery.\u00a0 And the cover plate was also the hold down strap.<\/p>\n

But I decided on a sealed battery.\u00a0 Which means that I don’t have to worry about putting in an overflow drain.\u00a0 But the new battery doesn’t have an intergated hold-down.\u00a0 So it’s fabrication time again.<\/p>\n

The battery has these two little… tabs sticking up.\u00a0 I could have just gone over top of those but I was worried that pressing down on those would cause trouble in the future. So instead of using flat plate, I used\u00a0I picked up some 3\/4″ square stock and cut it to length and notched the square stock. Then drilled two holes for the rods.<\/p>\n

\"2015-01-18<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the hold-down bar on the new battery.<\/p>\n

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This entry is part 49 of 67 in the series 13 - Electrical \/ Instruments<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The battery that I have been using is a used one which came out of another airplane.\u00a0 The dimensions are pretty standard so I used it as a template when I was building the battery tray. It was a standard … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"series":[37],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-47","series-13-electrical-instrumentation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1912,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}