[RCSE] Typical current drain

[George Gillburg]

What do you think the average current drain of a full house (six servo) 
system is?  The reason I ask is this:  Saturday, I crashed the Slegers 
Condor I've been flying for the last 5 or 6 years.  I was coming in on 
final approach, removed camber from the wing and the ship nosed straight 
in.  When I checked the battery voltage, my receiver pack read 4.1v.  
This was the third flight of the day and both previous flights had been 
around 3 minutes each.  Battery is a 800 mah nicad that had been freshly 
charged in the morning.  I thought the battery had gone bad but I cycled 
it twice on Saturday & Sunday and got 811 mah & 831 mah on a Sirius 
Super Test, so I would think the battery is OK.  I've checked the 
current draw and I get and idle current varying from 60 to 200 plus ma 
and a full draw current (stirring the sticks to move all controls at the 
same time) of around 1300 ma.  The airplane is equipped with a JR 
NER226X receiver, 5 JR 351 servos and one JR 368 servo.  No one servo 
seemed to increase drain any more than others.  Do these drain figures 
seem excessive?
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