You may not have a big enough load on the 5v supply.
Sounds dumb.
All regulation is done on the 5v supply and if you do not draw enough
current on the 5v supply it will probably shut down.
And all you wanted was 12v.
Rick
Richard Hallett Pittsfield ME
Dan Kitching wrote:
I'm us
except to keep it straight etc.
Rick
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To dramatically extend the lives of the cheap units make sure you mount
them so gravity assists.
Rick
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ed with these longer opportunities that
are getting shorter.
Question. How many stalled F3B launches can be made on your F3B
battery? So what is your battery size and how many launches? I may
need to take multiple batteries or buy a new one.
Thankyou.
Rick
Richard Hallett Pittsfield ME
PS In case
The biggest benefits of RADS for the average flyer are
1. storage and handling and
2. much less landing damage.
Rick
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warm when the Triton sounded
Anyone know whether the liquid is an acid or a base?
I would like to do a good job cleaning as receivers are a might expensive.
Thank you
Rick
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. The Rx drain fairly closely matches the Tx drain of the Evo.
This of course only answers half your question since you wanted cells
for smaller planes too.
Rick
Richard Hallett Pittsfield ME
Dave Brombaugh wrote:
Where do you like to buy your batteries for both the 3M sized planes,
but also
t be crazy? Walk to retrieve? I am too old. Those are a
few starters.
A conundrum?
Rick
Richard Hallett Pittsfield ME
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Tom's analysis is, as they might say in JOE (jolly olde England), SPOT ON.
And this excellent observation from non other than our current LSF President
http://www.pbase.com/mdm/image/37831527.jpg
If you are in Maine on Saturday 5/14 we would love to have you come and fly
with us or at least have a hamburger at noon.
Rick
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I have a couple winches with the FLS motor. I seem to remember someone saying that a Shunt will limit the RPMs of the motor. Or perhaps the power??.Can someone tell me how to eliminate the shunt or
Most radios and modern equipment have a diode in them just for this
accident. In which case the battery is in the same condition as when he
started and the fuse is still good.
Put it on the regular charger and charge for the right time and you should
be all set.
Rick
Richard Hallett
Does an ionizer that strongly puts that pungent corona smell in the air
make the dust settle faster?
Rick
Richard Hallett Pittsfield ME
Thomas Koszuta wrote:
As someone who has a touch of asthma to begin with, I take dust pretty
seriously. Though I've not yet developed an allergy to i
u for the first time.
Ask for pictures.
Rick
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Icons.
Switch to an F3B style winch with 150# mono. The launch line won't break
and the altitude will blow your socks off.
Rick
Richard Hallett Pittsfield ME
PS Not suitable for contest use unless you do some adaptation of the format.
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ores of 3900,
4200, and 4500 with a winning score of 3900 but will the weather cooperate?
Questions??
Thankyou for asking.
Rick
Richard Hallett Pittsfield ME
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other pilot. You time for yourself.
Of course there are a few other normal rules.
If nothing else join us for a different format
Rick
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I have always hope that F3B would shorten the line length.
This, as an official line length; could open up more small fields for use.
Rick
Richard Hallett Pittsfield Maine
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I have shipped in plywood with pine corners outside. Probably local people
were blind.
Rick
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First Happy Birthday
To help us celebrate how about a list of your published planes for the
youngsters.
Thankyou.
Rick
Rich Hallett Pittsfield ME
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I sold my Micro Pro's but I have a friend that still has a couple.
There used to be a source for fm modules.
Is that source still available?
If so a website please.
Thankyou.
Rick
Richard Hallett Pittsfield ME
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Rule one with monofilament.
No excess on the drum when you are ready to launch.
Unlike braided it will unwind on itself many layers down like a giant
uncoiling spring. Commonly known as a rats nest.
Rick
Richard Hallett Pittsfield ME
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Gravity.
Take the old solenoid apart before you install the new one. Now mount the
new one so gravity can help the little return spring and also prevent some
side drag.
If I remember Ford had a dent in the inner fender to mount this correctly
Rick
Richard Hallett
Pittsfield ME USA
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participate. Bring your biggest planes because they are
generically easier to launch this way.
Details on the club page for time map etc.
http://www.downeastsoaring.org
Questions??
Richard Hallett
Pittsfield ME USA
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about some of the difficult fabrics.
Rick
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nd of"
"your cake and eat it too"
The response is much different to ballast compared to a draggy foil.
Ballast picks you up real quick
I build them very light like this to enjoy in the evening at Sundown after
work.
Rick
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If you are available please give me a private reply I would like to ask a
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The ping.
As the wind goes down you need a stronger hi start. Conversely as the wind
goes up you need less.
Wind is required but usually not much. As you launch your glider at about a
hundred feet you go sideways then after that direction you reverse and in
the back and forth pattern attempt to
In my shop I have a twelve foot by 16 inch glass table on an old straight
medium duty extension ladder. This is supported by steel stools on the
concrete floor. All cutting and setting of wings are done on this table.
This table is set up as a zone off the boiler with output temperature set
fo
Twist.
Back to back spinners with two rings between will just about eliminate the
problem. If not find out which end of the spinners is restricting movement.
At that end put two more rings.The rings act as the universal joint to
free up the spinners to spin. If the spinners are too light I h
Silent Flight lasted much longer than expected. QFI did not do as well.
They both depended on their beginnings and prime running on the character
Dave.
When he got wiped out in a motocycle accident it was only a matter of time.
Rick
PS. Get the message. Soaring where you are depends on YOU.
Harley I am basically lazy.
The best reason for using RADS at the slope is to preserve the servos.
Very little movement is typically needed. So here is the lazy man's way to
do it. Apologies but to understand this you have to understand the RADS
system first off Harley's site.
That being the c
I was very pleased to be able to get 6 minutes in dead air time. Thought I
was doing well. Launch could only safely produce a moderate zoom though.
Conditions several nights in a row. Dead air, never a twitch. To get the
six minutes I still had to turn with trims only otherwise I would only ge
I feel that it is sad that we start people building in the horse and buggy
days. Worse yet we suggest expensive materials- balsa wood, monokote, and
CA. What a strange group CA the most recent extending all the way back
through to balsa. Surprised someone doesn't suggest bamboo.
By far cheaper
Bring a kid to do your towing and if you wish bring another to do your
timing. Lunch etc will be free to them. BUT they cannot be pilots, they
can only be your tower or your timer.
The kids brought for these purposes will have their names in the hat for the
radio I won at Jim's summer contest (
A 1/4-28 is supposed to be able to hold 800 pounds in pull.
I use two 10/32 for zoom launching of f3b size.
Rick
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I was complaining about the non stiffness of my ailerons and asked what
could be done about it. I received a reply from the famous or notorious
Sal. His response was to finish off those two exposed surfaces and gain a
lot in stiffness.
He was right. Finishing off that foam does matter.
Thanky
Let's put a positive spin on this for Karlton
Hope you find it worthwhikle.
Rick
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Who is selling the Eclipse . I am looking for just the TX and the Spectra
module but if available without I do not even need the TX module since I
have one already.
Thankyou.
Rick
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Since foam comes in various colors and densities use the two properties to
color the wing. It is a thought but you may not like what you see
underneath but it all disappears at launch height anyway.
The question that is important is what I can see in the air not on the
ground. Unfortunately tha
I find that using CA screws up my sinuses).
I don't want to stop using it.
What sort of a filter mask will work?
VB TIA
Regards,
--
Stephen Syrotiak
Southern Connecticut
You have been violating what has been preached at your for years.
VENTILATION
If you still have problems improve the venti
My foam supplier tells me that Dow grayboard is no different than Owens
corning Foamular 150. The tow sure feel and look different to me. What
is the deal?
Mike in Arcata
Mike I personally did not like pink. I always considered it soft to the
touch. Then I met gray but that also is the same.
48x72inches 5 ounces 1.8 ounce/ sq yd $50 you pay shipping
48X80 inches 9.5 ounces 2.96 ounces / yard $40 you pay shipping
Thankyou.
Rick
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Probably this will be hitting the list twice since I put the wrong address
on it the first time.
> Question??
>
> I thought we could use acrylic pigment with epoxy.
>
> Is this true or false.
>
> Thankyou.
>
> Rick
>
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In winter the "sheltered" area becomes very prominent as the place to look
for thermals. Everything is the same white so the question then becomes
where is the wind not hitting because of some sheltering feature that would
allow the heat to build and kick.
Rick
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The scrollsander page has some fantastic pictures of how to do it. Again
like others I have been doing it this way for years.
MY WRINKLE.
I do not use an exotic supply. I take the present transformer used for
normal cutting and add about six to ten turns of #17 or #18 magnet wire to
give me th
I gave away the large Sears deep cycle battery I used for the May contest.
It was too heavy for my back to handle. Same for the Ford winch. So I
dropped back to a small Lucas 35 starter and a Bosch permanent magnet
starter. To get good launches I use the very stretchy Advantage 130 line.
I use
I had six of one brand that failed below 30'F. I expected to fly down to
0'F and found this very upsetting. My radios of the past did not do this.
Worse still you would not be aware of this because coming from the house or
car they would retain some heat and then slowly die as their temperature
The original author of this string had an excellent point.
>From the recommendation of the original presentation by Selig and Donovan at
the appropriate MARCS symposium. I have used the SD7084 for years with
excellent results.
Besides being an excellent airfoil second to very very few it is "do
Sorry Paul but it is not over.
I read with great interest your post and the replies.
We have had several rounds like this in the last few years. I hope that
other people come away from this having learned something.
If you have not been caught in one of these problems where have you been?
Th
At spring sale time the boat dealer is pushing MAS epoxy.
Anyone used it?
How is it for viscosity & odor?
Rick
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"Not surprising. The 10% SD8020 is too thick for most glider tails. A slab
airfoil is just plain bad.
Both will surely have nonlinearities. A 5-6% thick airfoil with the max
thickness point
well forward at 20-25% chord is much better, since it is immune to most
hysteresis effects.
With such a
The FMA website http://www.fmadirect.com is the easiest site to get to
that lists a coreless servo. The prime difference is the quality and type
of the motor. In addition the gear system is normally of the higher
quality. The problem is their size. I have not had the chance to examine
any o
Please reply just to be sure with a number off the side of the can.
I have managed to make every possible mistake in the book this winter and
want things as specific as possible.
Thankyou.
Rick
PS I kept reading the digest and Harley suggested white 1501 so I dashed
downstairs to see if that w
Epoxyworks #14 Fall 99 in an article by Tom Pawlak suggested extra heavy
hold hairspray in place of PVA on top of Meguiar's Mirror Glaze 8 Maximum
Release Wax or Meguiar's Mirror Glaze Automotive Paste Wax .
Anyone tried it??
Thankyou.
Rick
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The most important change for the glitching at the back of the vtail was not
touched by chokes and capacitors. I had also done the flaps and ailerons
the same way really compounding the problem..
I was using #26 computer cable wire and using just four wires. When I used
separate wires for each
Anyone know the source of this article.
Thankyou.
Rick
>Just saw a choke made from a servo lead in a recent mag, believe a March
>issue(MAN, MA or SEM). Twisted and wound up into a donut shape. Not sure
>how well it works.
>
>RB
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It was not folklore it was Futaba's statement late 80's early 90's to stay
within a very short range of the original frequency.
Jr was the first with a RX that could accept the full range of crystals.
So now at this point I would not be surprised in their new TX they can do
the same
Rick
--
Two stupid substitutes or so I found out later.
Finished off my most recent plane in time for F3J, Minot, ME. I had been
hard pressed to complete it the night before so figured I could hold the 35"
tip sections onto the 52" center section with the carbon joiners and a pass
of tape all the way ar
You have to have the answer to another question too. How many layers do I
need for handling. Another I have discovered is how much time out of the
heat(curing is done at elevated temperature) before I can handle the
product.
Then you need to consider the bushes and the weeds on the front edge a
If I turn a standard cloth 45 degrees I am supposed to be able to add some
to the strength. So using Kevlar or glass in a round boom approximately
how much have I changed it by turning and cutting the fabric at 45 degrees.
When I broke it because the ground came up and smacked it it was interest
I have been corrected in the past but I still have the feeling that the
class should not be RES but RE then we would not have to argue about
spoilers flaps etc. Then before you start the druthers state up front
conventional layout. So now we have REC. Of course the argument is that
sometimes th
I am glad that you are concerned about my health. But actually I am getting
along well. You should really be much more concerned about their health
than mine.
But I am curious about this bit about how hard I am supposed to work. I
work just as hard as ever if I am not on one of those dying bat
For demonstration purposes I have made a 3m meter glider with a foam
fuselage covered with glass or paper and the wings made with blue foam
spruce spars and brown paper covering . For control I used pull pull
through McDonald's drinking straws exiting all together just in front of the
fin. Of c
Gavan asked about the SD8000.
I saw one post. I wrote privately. Post seemed to be the same as mine not
REAL experience.
Anyone tell us what we should see and then what they did with it?
Rick
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Some years ago I ordered a number of these "tank turret bearings" for
turnarounds.
Anyone know who the gentleman is that sold them and his address??
Rick
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In addition to what Fritz says in the following this is the only kind to
have for retrieving through bushes weeks etc when the ground is not perfect.
An open chute will open up and catch but these will slide through.
I like the ones Mike Lachowski, our faithful moderator sells. He's at
[EMAIL PRO
Maybe he means you should buy your wife a new glider. (But I doubt it)
> In a message dated 9/1/99 2:41:08 PM Central Daylight Time,
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> << "He who spends more on his wife than he does on
> his airplanes, will fly more than the poor fellow
> who fails to apply
Use a foam dense enough to be able to take full vacuum. Using a
refrigerator pump turn the pump on and leave it on.
If you don't leak gobs of air into it it will run forever that way. If you
run a lot of wet air into it it will soon turn the original oil acid and
bye-bye windings. Let it run
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