Emergency Battery System

Rich Doyle, September 2023 In all all the IFR-rated Diamonds there is a limited-duration Emergency Battery System which, when activated, provides battery power to the Floodlight and the primary/backup "round-gauge" attitude indicator, isolated from the rest of the electrical system. As implied in the name, it's a last-ditch backup to loss of power from the […]

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