{"id":509,"date":"2013-01-26T16:57:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T16:57:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-12T16:09:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:09:18","slug":"painted-underside-of-plenum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2013\/01\/26\/painted-underside-of-plenum\/","title":{"rendered":"Painted Underside of Plenum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, the battery was dead again today. \u00a0I’ve known what the problem is, but I haven’t decided what to do about it. \u00a0When I was first putting together the electrical system design, I decided that I wanted the interior lights to work even if the battery master was off to help with baggage loading, boarding, etc. \u00a0Later, when I settled on the dual color light and dimmer, the design required running power to the dimmer first, and then to the color selection switch and then the lights. \u00a0I didn’t realize until the entire system was wired up that the dimmer leaks about 43mA even with the lights off. \u00a0With a 17AH battery, that leakage current effectively drains the battery in about two weeks. \u00a0I kept putting it off hoping I could find a way to preserve the behavior, but fix the current leak. \u00a0I ended up deciding to just move the cabin lights to the interior light circuit on the VP-X. \u00a0After doing that, my leakage current is now well less than 1mA which is more than acceptable.<\/p>\n

I also mixed up some epoxy primer and painted the underside of the plenum.<\/p>\n

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Well, the battery was dead again today. \u00a0I’ve known what the problem is, but I haven’t decided what to do about it. \u00a0When I was first putting together the electrical system design, I decided that I wanted the interior lights to work even if the battery master was off to help with baggage loading, boarding, … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avionics","category-firewall-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}