WiscoAV8tor
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I have a Garmin G5 installed with a battery as a backup. I am running a G3x system and up till now it has worked as advertised.
We ordered the avionics about a year ago, installed the systems with the aircraft's first flight in January. Beginning of June we take the airplane down for paint. We pick it up last week and I noticed the G5 say “NO BATT”. Sure enough when you power down the avionics it shuts off immediately. No charge at all. We ran the power to the G5 for about 4 to 5 hours to see if we could charge the battery but there was no status change, NO BATT.
So.... where do I go from here? Is the battery kaput? That would be sad considering we got a whopping 6 months out of it and about 65 flight hours. Or is there something else I am missing? I am going to go out and remove the G5 today and try to re-install the battery but I’m not holding out a lot of hope.
Open to suggestions if anyone has experience with this problem. I do have an email out to the G3Xperts as well.
Thanks.
QUICK UPDATE: Big shout out to the Garmin experimental guys. They quickly responded are going to replace the battery.
We ordered the avionics about a year ago, installed the systems with the aircraft's first flight in January. Beginning of June we take the airplane down for paint. We pick it up last week and I noticed the G5 say “NO BATT”. Sure enough when you power down the avionics it shuts off immediately. No charge at all. We ran the power to the G5 for about 4 to 5 hours to see if we could charge the battery but there was no status change, NO BATT.
So.... where do I go from here? Is the battery kaput? That would be sad considering we got a whopping 6 months out of it and about 65 flight hours. Or is there something else I am missing? I am going to go out and remove the G5 today and try to re-install the battery but I’m not holding out a lot of hope.
Open to suggestions if anyone has experience with this problem. I do have an email out to the G3Xperts as well.
Thanks.
QUICK UPDATE: Big shout out to the Garmin experimental guys. They quickly responded are going to replace the battery.
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