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Battery Rack in the tail, part 2.

Sun, Mar 18 2007 @ 18:30 in Switzerland
Contributed by: Mick
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This is part two of the battery rack in the tail story. When I went to put in the baggage floors and sides, which go in front of and on top of the area where I put the battery, I was rather disappointed to find that my beautiful battery mounts were interfering with the forward vertical part of the baggage skins. It seems I have mounted my batteries too far forward. Ugh!

To fix it I needed to simply move the batteries back about 2 inches, so that's what I did. Here's what it looked like when I started:

Here is the old battery rack with the new one. The green is the old one. I was able to reuse the angle for the new one. Notice that I've moved the battery contactors back.

Here is the final result. Several hours of work, and now the batteries are just a bit further back. That should help with C of G issues, at least.

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