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Replacement DA40 battery

Post by Gearle »

Updating this’s topic, Diamond officially supports both Concord and Gill batteries, per their email to me this week:

There are a couple of different positions for batteries in the DA40-180. Please see the excerpt below of the approved batteries from the AFM.
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Re: Replacement DA40 battery

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Just to be complete here, the Emergency Battery Pack part number in this list is not correct for ALL DA40's. There are other part numbers, depending on when your DA40 was built. See this thread for more information.
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Re: Replacement DA40 battery

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Rick,
The D41 batter pack is for the OLDER planes. All the ones with the GFC700 autopilot use the D60 pack.
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smoss wrote:Rick, The D41 batter pack is for the OLDER planes. All the ones with the GFC700 autopilot use the D60 pack.
Thanks, Steve. In my attempt to clarify, I think I just confused everyone, including myself! I edited my post accordingly...
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Re: Replacement DA40 battery

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Gearle wrote:Updating this’s topic, Diamond officially supports both Concord and Gill batteries, per their email to me this week:
There is a difference in weight between the Gill and the Concord battery. If you do change it remember to get the weight and balance recalculated.
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Re: Replacement DA40 battery

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There is also a difference in weight between the two Concorde batteries, RG24-11M and RG24-15M. I switched to the heavier RG24-15M to move the C.G. further to the front whilst hopefully benefitting from the higher capacity.
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Re: Replacement DA40 battery

Post by Roxi5m9 »

Is there still only 1 single option for the backup battery? A 300 dollar rip off that you can only get from Diamoond....and 200 bucks in overnight shipping if you really need it......
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Re: Replacement DA40 battery

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With respect to the emergency battery pack. I just purchased one from Don Davis Aviation, (270) 826-6000. They gave me a small discount on the part, but only charged me for 1/4 of the shipping from Diamond. They buy 4 at a time and split the shipping charges. They also did not ship it with hazmat shipping to my house, just regular UPS.
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Post by Roxi5m9 »

I just did my annual with Don Davis! They were awesome! And....small world....I got a battery pack from the same pack you did Curt, splitting the shipping with you. Let’s swap batteries in two years. Lol
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Re: Replacement DA40 battery

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If only it were that easy......
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