On Thursday, October 17, 2013 9:10:25 AM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote:

Or I could simply divide my equipment across two (or three) busses and then

rely on the load division to allow the batteries to last an entire flight.

Dan, that's how I've had my LS6 setup for over 13 years and it has worked just fine so far.

2 separate busses, one for each battery, with load divided as equally and logically as possible (split varios and loggers, for example).

In addition, the master switch for each buss can also select either battery, so if one battery fails (forgot to charge it?) the essential instruments can be powered by the remaining battery.

Probably WAY over-engineered, but it was fun to wire up and has worked as designed so far (ugly to look at, though - bit of a spaghetti factory behind that small LS6 panel that I want to clean up some day...).

Kirk
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