I just ordered a 1/3 scale all carbon, super stiff, super heavy, OH MY GAWD gorgeous, DG800.... best display of a molded scale ship I've ever seen. The same one Mike Smith got. It's not exactly, uh... free. But it is gorgeous. And with 5K plus radio floating (or in this case) haulin' ass around the sky... I'll be going with redundant systems.
I asked a fellow soaring geek who knows much more about these types of systems than I. Here is his reply: "As far as batteries go, on anything with the room I use dual packs of the same cell count, two switches and plug into any two open slots. If no open slots, then I just use a "Y" to plug the battery into one side and whatever servo n the other side. Depending on how much weight you need up front and the available space you can use Nicad or NiMH packs of anything between 1950 to 4000 mAh. Don't get sucked into using battery backers or any other just nonsense. 2 packs, 2 switches, plugged into the RX. Easy as pie, plenty of capacity and a redundant system. The reason I like 2 pack set ups is the redundancy and the fact that it splits the load between the two packs. SO each sees half the load or current draw. Keeps voltage depression under high load to a minimum. And I like 2 switches since they are the cheapest POS we use and they are really the failure point that you are trying to eliminate. On my TD ships I don't even use them, that's how much I distrust them. Here's a good resource for dual pack set ups: http://www.rcbatteryclinic.com/parallel.html " See you guys at the aerotows... I'll be the one going really really fast... To see the model - go here. Not a great website, but Thomas has been great to work with. www.xl-sailplanes.com D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
