Jim,
If you want to make one, Tony vanRoon has one.
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/gadgets/rx-volt.htm
Chris
Jim Bacus wrote:
>
> Although my passion is for R/C soaring, I have "piloted" just about
> everything popular in R/C, including gas and electric power planes, gas and
> electric cars (competitively), gas and electric boats, and sail boats. The
> one thing I never did was Helicopters, and I am playing around with them on
> the side now. The Helicopter boyz of all kinds of cool gizmos, we could
> take a lesson with servo savers and hi-torque installations from these
> guys, especially for DS'ing or F3B. They also run these cool little
> battery meters, not particularly for Helicopters, but all the copter pilots
> seem to use them. I was thinking about putting these in my Moldies, and at
> the F3J team selects, I was having a close look at Ben Clerx's Icon, and HE
> had one in there too! Since the weather has sucked for flying this
> weekend, I went over to Al's hobby shop and picked up 3 of these and
> installed them in my Cobra, Icon, and Dorker LT. You have probably seen
> them before, they look like a set of tiny LED's on a PC board that has a
> single IC on the back, all in clear shrinkwrap, it just plugs into any open
> servo plug on your RX.
>
> Kind of makes sense to have a battery meter in your expensive large
> sailplanes, instead of remembering how long ago was it since you last
> charged on the field... 8-) So simple, cheap and easy to do, should have
> done this a long time ago.
>
> Gizmo boy,
>
> Jim
> Downers Grove, IL
> Member of the Chicago SOAR club, AMA 592537 LSF 7560 Level III
> ICQ 6997780 R/C Soaring Page at http://www.jimbacus.net/soaring/soaring.html
>
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