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Old February 4th 13, 03:16 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Dylan Smith[_2_]
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Default The new Electric Cessna 172

On 2013-02-01, wrote:
To put the wire required in perspective, those big heavy cables on an
arc welder are good for a current of around 100 Amps so your charging
cable would have to be about 30 times bigger than arc welder cables.


To be precise for an interconnect of 10m, two cables of 30mm diameter
would suffice. It would give the line boy a bit of a work out but isn't
impossible. Size-wise it's a bit like two fuel hoses but *considerably*
heavier.

However, the price and other installation details of getting the
300kW feed to the FBO is left as an exercise for the reader...