EarthX battery for Experimental Aircraft

[Cubonaut875]

Here is my current battery set up largely as if came from the factory, this picture was just before I put the pigtails on for the back up starter battery but with the charger pads attached. I was contemplating how I was going to get the pigtail on for the back up battery, hence I'm sitting in the back seat with my socks on. The arrow pointing to the open lead in the last picture was me asking Pete what it was for and if it was disconnected. I seriously forget what he said it was for, but the just was that it was not a problem. I believe it was a sensor lead of some type.

 

[spusmc]

Ok, very interesting. Mine is facing 90 degrees from that facing forward. I am going to investigate this and make those adjustments. It makes sense for servicing- thanks for the pics. I will shoot some before and after pics in case anyone else is in the same boat. I have some time to do this since we are snowed in here in Colorado..... That lead is for an aux light you can mount in the dash to give you a heads up of a fault or low battery. I capped mine, there are enough blinky lights already.

 

[Neal]

Per Pete at CC you don't need that lead/light as the G3X will alert with voltage anomalies. I think the difference is @Cubonaut875 got his EarthX installed from the factory whereas the SBS-J16 is oriented with leads forward as you pictured. Interesting how they rotated it.