On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 2:23:50 PM UTC-8, Ron Gleason wrote:
For many or most of us, winter is here and the gliders are parked for a number of months. I have removed every battery from the cockpit, put mouse poison in the trailer and taken out anything that should not freeze (waxes, plexi-glass cleaners etc).

What is the best way store glider batteries, specifically LiPO4's? Just plug them in the charger? Does it matter if they are in the house or in a cold garage?

What the PDA's and PNA's? Again just keep them on the charger in the warm house?

Any other items folks do to bundle up their gliders?

Ron Gleason

I don't think you can go wrong with the following recommendations.

The recommended is to discharge the battery about 1/2 and then store do not leave on the charger. I don't think warm or cold will matter, but I would bring them in the house out of the condensation.

PDAs PNAs in the house on the charger every month or so.

Mouse poison I don't know.
You will find the mice in the summer when the dead ones heat up and stink.


Richard,
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