EarthX Lithium Batteries has a new 8 Ah backup battery for experimental aircraft! Designed and engineered specifically for avionics and critical electronic systems. Available now on www.earthxbatteries.com. This is a TCW IBBS upgraded replacement.
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New EarthX Backup Battery
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Outstanding news!
Can you please provide a detailed comparison between your Earth X (EBBS) the TCW (IBBS)? I think we'd all like to better understand the differences..
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I would agree, but having just purchased a replacement 6a backup battery from TCW, the cost with shipping was $300 (vs $400 for the EarthX). Unfortunately, something is either wrong with the replacement TCW battery or the TCW unit has developed a problem and now I’m returning the replacement TCW battery and I ordered the EarthX. For the extra $100, I’ll be buying slightly more capacity.
That is another sad fact that big companies buy these little companies and jack up the price. I have replaced mine and another friend's TCW battery just before they were bought out and the charge was $159, nearly have the cost.
Now lets hope EarthX is not purchased by Hartzell or some other big company as that unit may end up being $799 instead of $400.
And in all of these, I just feel so powerless to do anything about it.
I just had to replace my backup battery this past spring on my old fashioned "roll our own" backup system. Although the AH on my unit does not compete with the 8 AH of the EarthX, the replacement battery only cost $15.00. It comes with slide on crimped terminals so is an easy install. I can buy a huge number of replacement batteries at this price before I ever hit the price point of TCW or EarthX.
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Steve, are you using this as a back-up efis battery?I just had to replace my backup battery this past spring on my old fashioned "roll our own" backup system. Although the AH on my unit does not compete with the 8 AH of the EarthX, the replacement battery only cost $15.00. It comes with slide on crimped terminals so is an easy install. I can buy a huge number of replacement batteries at this price before I ever hit the price point of TCW or EarthX.
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The backup battery is only feeding the pilot EFIS and the AHRS. It truly is for emergency. That battery is rated for 2.5 AH. That gives me about 1 hour of use for those instruments. If I have an electrical failure that causes all instruments to go dark I flip a switch to power those two instruments and get on the ground as fast as possible. Keep in mind my plane is not equipped for IFR.
I ran the Odyssy PC310 for many years.
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It seems all reference to this backup battery has disappeared from the EarthX site. I can't find anywhere to buy it. Is the product still in development?
I also looked a couple of weeks ago and couldn't find it on their Web site.
Wonder if anyone saw them at Oshkosh and can confirm or deny that they were advertising it...
I did not see them at their booth. I will confess though I was not thinking about that battery at the time.
