KR> battery charger

2009-02-09 Thread George Bearden
Since it is all made in China anyway, might as well get the 1 amp trickle charger from harbor Freight for $6 on sale. Gets the job done just as well. GeoB

KR> battery charger

2009-02-09 Thread George Bearden
I work in an IT dept, and sometimes the old batteries get passed around. I think that many of them will have life left even if they don't perform. I think many of them need de-sulfating. I have a couple desulfator devices and have saved MANY times the price of them saving batteries. Friend brought

KR> battery charger

2009-02-09 Thread Jeff Scott
One could certainly do that. But why? A quick look on line and I found wall wart type trickle chargers for as little as $16. Then you have something that is sealed, electrically safe, and probably has a UL listing rather than using something in a way it wasn't intended to be used. Take the

KR> Near Miss

2009-02-09 Thread Phillip Matheson
I got up early to get a flight in before the winds started up again, but visibility is down to a few 100 yards form smoke. We guys are still lucky here not to be in the road of the dam fires in Victoria, many were lit by fire bugs, now something like 173 + dead, but early yesterday they was a

KR> battery charger

2009-02-09 Thread bobby burington
--- On Mon, 2/9/09, Oscar Zuniga wrote: > Question for you electronics types. One of our office UPSs > died and I snagged it on its way out to the trash. Hi Oscar, Yes it will make a trickle charger for any size battery. I have salvaged several of the UPS units you

KR> battery charger

2009-02-09 Thread Glenn Martin
Oscar Zuniga wrote: > Question for you electronics types. One of our office UPSs died and I > snagged it on its way out to the trash. Opening it up, I see that it's quite > easy to replace the two sealed 7Ah, 12V batteries and put it back online > again. However, it occurred to me that it

KR> battery charger

2009-02-09 Thread Oscar Zuniga
Question for you electronics types. One of our office UPSs died and I snagged it on its way out to the trash. Opening it up, I see that it's quite easy to replace the two sealed 7Ah, 12V batteries and put it back online again. However, it occurred to me that it might also be just fine to

KR> was- last few flights...Now Crosswinds

2009-02-09 Thread Jeff Scott
I got into some early spring winds with the KR the previous weekend. After meeting some friends for the $100 breakfast burrito, I got back to Los Alamos to find the winds 360@17G21 for landing runway 27. Correcting the anemometer for our 7150' altitude, that's 19G23 gusting up out of the

KR> last few flights...

2009-02-09 Thread Patrick Driscoll
Mark won't be the first, so we know it can be done There was a fellow from Sweden at OSH. in about 1979 or 80 that was going to fly his plane to Sweden by the Greenland, Iceland route. He had a reserve tank built that would be on the seat beside him. His was the first KR I had seen with

KR> last few flights...

2009-02-09 Thread joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com
OK, knock it off guys before Langford does figure out a way to get his plane over there. I kind of thought I might get to catch up a few hours on him. I did some forced economy vs. speed testing yesterday by following a 172 out to breakfast. At about 2700 rpm, @ 125 mph indicated and burned just

KR> last few flights...

2009-02-09 Thread Roger Bulla
r - Original Message - From: "bobby burington" To: "KRnet" Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 7:25 AM Subject: Re: KR> last few flights... He won't need the long range tanks, he's going north to Greenland then a short hop over to Iceland then

KR> last few flights...

2009-02-09 Thread bobby burington
He won't need the long range tanks, he's going north to Greenland then a short hop over to Iceland then the long flight over the Channel to Scotland thats about a 750 mile hop. So he should be fine with his wing tanks full. Bobby Burington California KR2 Builder --- On Sun, 2/8/09, Ron Smith

KR> Blue foam

2009-02-09 Thread Larry Flesner
At 04:36 PM 2/8/2009, you wrote: >I guess Ken Rand didn't know what he was talking about then, even though >his plans are still for sale... And Burt stopped selling his plans >decades ago, so I'm thinking he knew what he was doing. ++