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Recent content by YelKiteFlyer

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    Picking a power system

    You would have to contact the manufactures to find out how they calculate their recommended systems. It would be interesting to know how they do it! Do they use a formula, or calculate it differently for each plane they put out. If it is a formula can they share it? Now that would be...
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    Picking a power system

    You have two different issues here. 1) I was not aware of the answer to the question you asked. And you are right, the example of the Super Vyper is wrong. I will have to recalculate the example. Maybe I should have used the example Lucien used in the ATTF podcast 207, but at this moment I am...
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    Picking a power system

    The Weight should be the considered as the all up flying weight, including a battery. Some times you have to just have to take an educated guess at the expected battery weight for the first order calculations. Once you have the actual weight, you can run through it one more time, but...
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    Picking a power system

    LUCIEN MILLER'S WAY (Taken from ATTF podcast # 207) Note: An electric motor is a constant rpm machine. As you put on a larger prop the motor will try to spin the prop at the higher constant rpm but the current will increase. The propeller determines how much power the electric motor...
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    You may be addicted to RC if...

    This one is very expensive, how can I know..... I know!!:(
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    You may be addicted to RC if...

    How about this, am I addicted yet? The table... The desk.... The cabinet above the desk... The small cabinet beside the cabinet above the desk... A storage area... The cabinet beside the table... Not addicted yet!! In my mind anyway. Robin
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    New Here? Introduce yourself!

    Heard about the site on attf. Can't fly worth a darn, so 3d is a ways out... Come to see what the site is all about. Hello from Aldergrove, BC, Canada..... Eh!
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