Back home ok
Thanks to the people who called and offered help. I hitched a ride in a Cessna 172 to Hicks where my wife picked me up with tools and battery chargers and we drove back to Jacksboro.
Now the embarassing part, offered here for either your enjoyment or education.
I pulled the rear seat and battery access cover and charged the battery. Still no go.
I pulled the rear baggage floor to check the battery terminals and connections. Everything beautiful, just as it was at the condition inspection in April. Still no go.
I crawled under the panel and checked the wiring to the starter switch. Everything looked good, still no go.
I took off the upper and lower cowls to cehck the wiring to the starter and solenoid. Everything tight and clean. Still no go.
So I'm sitting in the cockpit wondering what to do next, or actually what brand and strength of alcohol to buy to drown my sorrows, when I notice a circuit breaker is tripped. I push it in, and the engine turns over! UGH. All that work and a Saaturday wasted and I should have double checked all the breakers!
I'm not sure why the alt field breaker tripped, and did not know the starter solenoid circuit was on that circuit too. I'm not the builder. I need to break out Aeroelectric info and check the starter circuit out again.
The interesting thing is that on the way to Jacksboro there were the cockpit indications that the field had tripped. I was flying along with little electrical load and the EIS 4000 gave me a low amp alarm. I get that from time to time when there is little or no load on the electrical system so I pressed reset and did not think twice about it. From there on I was apparently not charging only drawing from the battery.
My current sensor is on the alternator cable not the battery. I am now considering changing it to the battery cable so I will know when the battery is discharging. I think I'll also reread the threads on where to locate the current sensor too.
So I had a couple of short but nice flights and a nice education on Saturday.