Greetings fellow flyers from the Pacific NW,
Just a quick tip on batt testing and draining. Today I went to the field with 6 fully charged batts. Really windy today so I only flew once, For that was all that was needed to say, to windy to fly today as my Dynam SU26 had a rough landing even with a Hobby Eagle Gyro on board. So I ended up at home with 5 fully charged batts. I simply took a spare motor,esc, and receiver, mounted it all on a flat board and guala! Batt drain and test station.
Just plug in with transmitter on like its in a plane, plug in your batt checker into its lead and throttle up. With a 12x8 prop dont take but 5 minutes to drain a fully charged batt and I get to monitor the batt with the checker. I can see all the cell voltage while under load, and watch the performance of the batt to. Then when I see that it is drained enough for storage, just throttle down and store the batt.
No more hanging around the batt charger in discharge mode, or storage mode for 5 hrs. I'm done with that.
If your TX has a timer, you can put that into use to during the drain and test as well.
Happy Landings from the Pacific NW, Time is money.
Just a quick tip on batt testing and draining. Today I went to the field with 6 fully charged batts. Really windy today so I only flew once, For that was all that was needed to say, to windy to fly today as my Dynam SU26 had a rough landing even with a Hobby Eagle Gyro on board. So I ended up at home with 5 fully charged batts. I simply took a spare motor,esc, and receiver, mounted it all on a flat board and guala! Batt drain and test station.
Just plug in with transmitter on like its in a plane, plug in your batt checker into its lead and throttle up. With a 12x8 prop dont take but 5 minutes to drain a fully charged batt and I get to monitor the batt with the checker. I can see all the cell voltage while under load, and watch the performance of the batt to. Then when I see that it is drained enough for storage, just throttle down and store the batt.
No more hanging around the batt charger in discharge mode, or storage mode for 5 hrs. I'm done with that.
If your TX has a timer, you can put that into use to during the drain and test as well.
Happy Landings from the Pacific NW, Time is money.
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