REFLECTOR: Battery contactor hot potato

John Tvedte johnt at comp-sol.com
Mon Mar 12 21:04:05 CDT 2007


Well- you could use a Kilovac EV200 - I'm just not sure it is worth it compared with a stone simple contactor....
 
John

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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org on behalf of Alex
Sent: Mon 3/12/2007 4:35 PM
To: 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Battery contactor hot potato



Yea, kind of figured that they would be warm,, but this seemed unusually
hot- but by the replies I have been getting, it seems like it is normal -
just hate to waste any appreciable amount of power since I have an all
electric airplane, with an ECU- do have 2 batteries and 2 alternators
though, so reliability should be enough.....
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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Scott Derrick
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 10:09 AM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Battery contactor hot potato

battery relays use quite a bit of electricity in a very small area, so they
will get quite warm.  The coil has to pull pretty hard to insure a good
contact or the contacts could heat up  and weld or melt which would be very
bad.

Scott


Alex wrote:
> Dear fellow Velocitarians,
> I have been getting to the wiring, and to do testing ect, I had one of
> my battery contactors energized so I could get power to my bus- was
> not using any power for the most part- just needed to see if my
> strobes, and other things functioned for a few seconds, but after
> about 30 minutes of being on with no load, I went to disconnect, and
> the solenoid was quite hot- too hot to hold for more than about 5
> seconds- BTW- I am not accidentally using a momentary solenoid- it is
> a continuous type- but the coil must be using a good amount of  power
> to get that hot I am thinking- is this a normal condition or is there
something wrong with my unit?
>
> Alex
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