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So the good news is that I've just bought a very nice 180 HP S1S. Now I have to fly it 600 miles to its new home in NJ. I plan to do that as soon as I get some days off that match a break in the weather. I don't recall the battery that is in the plane but its under a year old. That battery will have to get me through at least 2 fuel stops ("Pitts stops", perhaps?) while running an old Terra comm and Sandia Transponder for the duration of the flight. My question to any of you with alternator- /generator-free experience is: Can it do it without an intervening charge? (This assumes no problematic hot starts, etc). I suppose I can also turn off the transponder when away from Washington and NJ if the consensus is that it might be too much of a drain.
