Re: [RCSE] Pierce Arrow Paragon kits...?

2003-04-01 Thread Art Mcnamee
Hi rdwooebke, Ed Slobod, who designed the Paragon, built and flew one with electric motor. It flew great. I don't have Ed's E mail address but do have his phone no. if needed. Thermals, art rdwoebke wrote: With all this talk of Paragons, has anyone on this list built an electric Paragon? I'm

[RCSE] Pierce Arrow Paragon kits...?

2003-04-01 Thread Jerry Krainock
The origional Paragon Kits were produced by Gene Walloch who was a production Engineer for Mac/Dac and a master craftsman. Walloch had tooling for all of the curved parts which were sanded to shape. As an old freeflighter, Gene's wood selection was superb. If any of the spruce in the old kits

Re: [RCSE] JR 8103 lithium battery failure question

2003-04-01 Thread Steve Meyer
Karl, I would be guessing, but even though a low battery condition exists on your Lithium battery it should be at least a week possibly a month before it was low enough to start to lose memory. Steve At 10:37 PM 3/30/2003 -0600, Karl Miller wrote: I have a JR 8103 Tx which is about 5 years

Re: [RCSE] JR 8103 lithium battery failure question

2003-04-01 Thread Jim Larkin
Why worry about what will happen ? Just send it back to Horizion Hobbies and get a new Lith battery installed--and ask them to check the xmtr over while they have it. I sent my 388 back last year and got excellent service, reasonable prices and about a 2-3 week turnaround. No need to push your

[RCSE] Got an update on the Vario shipping date

2003-04-01 Thread GordySoar
According to the message I got the Varios are shipping 3/18/03but don't hold your breaths, its the same thing I got the first time I ordered..and 8 months later I am going to try calling tomorrow. "Guten Tag, Whas Upp?" More later :-) Gordy

Re: Re: [RCSE] JR 8103 lithium battery failure question

2003-04-01 Thread Robert (Bob) P. Andris
Andrew, What you say is always a good idea. However, it can be done by the consumer with some care. I recently got the L on one of my 8103s. The change over probably made it 'batteryless' for 10 to 15 min. Lo, and behold, the settings were still there. Maybe there is a big capacitor in

Re: Re: [RCSE] JR 8103 lithium battery failure question

2003-04-01 Thread Dennis Hipperson
I believe if you leave the TX battery connected you can change the lithium without fear of losing any settings. I think I saw that in the manual. Dennis - Original Message - From: Robert (Bob) P. Andris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 5:10 AM

Re: Re: [RCSE] JR 8103 lithium battery failure question

2003-04-01 Thread brent douglas
I just got my JR back from Horizon, and they changed that as part of their standard procedure. All my settings were intact, so I'm betting that if you have battery power, you can change that out / have it done. Horizon had my (sorry-*ss) radio back to me inside of 2 weeks, for not much money: I

[RCSE] Soaring stuff?

2003-04-01 Thread Ba553
Just checking on the reliability of a vendor: Soaring Stuff. No flame wars needed just good or otherwise reports please! BPA