[NSRCA-discussion] Fw: Glow Driver

[Ron Van Putte]

If it's the new Radio South glow driver (yellow), you have to acquire  
some individual 1100 mah  2/3A NiMH cells and make up a flat pack, or  
buy a ready-made pack which has the 1100 mah 2/3A NiMH cells in it.

You can use almost any 4.8 volt pack in the older (Orange) Radio  
South glow driver.  I recently sold a customer a 4.8 volt/3000 mah  
NiMH flat pack to a customer to put in his glow driver.  That ought  
to light a few month's worth of plugs.

Ron VP

On Jul 5, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Karl G. Mueller wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Karl G. Mueller
> To: General pattern discussion
> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 4:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Glow Driver
>
> Jeff,
>
> It sounds like that the internal battery is on it's way out or at
> least one of the cells. I had the same problem. The LED's would
> light up but there wasn't enough power going to the plug to burn
> off the oil accumulated in the bottom ( inverted engine ).
> Since these are not standard size batteries I could not find
> replacements easy enough and attached an external pack ( 4.8V
> flight pack ) to the bottom of the driver with an external plug for  
> the
> battery. Use an older flight-pack that you don't trust to power the
> airborne anymore. This way you can fast charge the battery from
> a 12 volt fast charger if you have to or just plug in an other  
> battery.
>
> Karl G. Mueller
> kgamueller at rogers.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeff Hatton
> To: nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 3:30 PM
> Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Glow Driver
>
> I am having something funny going on with my radio south Pro Driver  
> (The yellow one.)  When the engine is cold (first start of the day)  
> on any engine The driver does not seem to get the plug hot enough  
> to start, if I use a different glow driver the engine starts right  
> up.  Once the first start is done, my pro driver works fine for  
> every additional start for the day.  Does anyone have any ideas  
> what could be causing this and how I can make it not happen?
>
>
>
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