April 2020
Ultra-Starter 28V
ENERCRAFT
UST-2030 & UST-4030 USER MANUAL
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6. OPERATING PROCEDURE
6.1 Receiving your Ultra-Starter
Please check the
overall status of the unit to make sure that it hasn’t been
tampered in any way during the Shipment and/or potential Customs
inspections. If you detect anything, please contact us immediately.
Due to the time needed to pack and deliver your Ultra-Starter from our factory
in Canada to your hangar or operational base, and due to the existent
regulations for shipping Lithium batteries (we must keep the cells under its 30%
of charge), your unit won’t be ready to be used once you receive it.
To be completely sure, please check first the battery status. The voltage may be
below 28V, which means that you must proceed to its first full charge. For this
first charge, we recommend you to charge the equipment for, at least, three (3)
hours. The unit can reach a maximum voltage of 30.6V before that time, but
please keep it charging for this first full charge only, in order to stabilize the
batteries.
After three (3) hours, your new Ultra-Starter will be ready to be used! Please
check the voltage again to confirm that it has reached more than 30V, and you
can initiate normal operations to start the engines of all your aircraft.
6.2 Normal operations. DISPLAY reading and understanding
Once you start using the unit you will see that the discharge voltage will remain
almost constant for quite a while. This is an advantage and a characteristic of
the Lithium cells, which will improve the energy delivery efficiency of the Ultra-
Stater. But, at some point after some engine starts (amount depending on type
of engine/s or environmental factors), the display will show changes, according
to the sequence below. Please follow the indications shown:
….… Several engine starts are performed…….
The output voltage will gradually drop from 30.6V initially down to 26.8V and all
the battery load level LEDs (2 red and 6 green LEDs) will remain ON during this
process.