All,

Thanks for all your help last year with this, it's taken a while due to various work commitments taking up most of my free hours.

I finally took the plunge & replaced the starter motor with a nearly new item. First try with the new unit in, a supposedly "flat battery" turned the new starter ...

Finally got some time yesterday to go & try some of your suggestions.

Having left the battery charging (and checking the indicator was showing it as fully charged), I metered the battery out & got 12.9V when not connected to he charger (sorry Frank, only just saw that you mentioned the on-charge ...

Thanks for the replies, will look to get up there tomorrow & give these suggestions a try so will hopefully update after that.

Can also talk to Brian, the owner of the strip where we fly from, about his tractors now :lol: We did try jump starting from a couple of the farm machines, I'll have to pay ...

Thanks to you both,

It's actually a "new" engine, insofar as it's been running for about 30 hours. It was put in after the prop disintegrated on the previous owner as he was climbing out of Carlisle. After that he found someone with an unused grey top for sale so put that in as a replacement.

I ...

Have a RANS S6 with Rotax 582 Grey Top.

Had a problem at beginning of year where I could start the engine first time, but if it cut then subsequently the battery wasn't able to turn the engine fast enough to start it. The battery appeared to be so discharged that even jumping the battery from the ...