Thursday 18th - Anyone flying?

Afternoon all. The weather is looking half decent for this evening, so is anyone planning on heading down to the field later?

The current weatehr looking over towards the field from my office in st Aspah is lots of high cloud cover, but still warm, and hardly any wind....

Andy

If the rain holds off I'll be down later, at this moment in time it's looking duller by the minute.

Hopefully. Fingers crossed

Yep, Comp ARF in the car along with big bombs. Prob not flying but at least I should hear what 4 odd Kilowatt sounds like

M

That reminds me, do you want another set of packs? I've got four off 5s 5Ah lipo packs sat doing nowt..

Andy

go on then never say no to 5s 5a packs

Of course, there would be a small charge invovled.....

With you envolved i doubt it will be small

I was well aware mate,

M

Seriously, make me an offer, they are just paperweights at the moment as I have nothing to use them in (and I'm not likely to in the next couple of years too)....

Andy
PS. I should add that they are finished in a rather tasteful light green heatshrink, and come with free Deans plugs......

chop the deans off and I'll make you an offer

M

No problem. I'll twist the ends together to stop them getting tangled up in stuff....

Quick weather update. Still dry here in St Asaph, but looking ratehr gloomy. The Met office radar shows a band of water bearing cloud moving up from the south west, so I wouldn't be surprised if we get some of the wet stuff this evening, althoug there is next to no wind at the moment, so it might be a while....

Andy

It's now raining in St Asaph ...

Andy

raining at Prestatyn toooo

Raining in Mochdre to has been for about 30mins, still going the field will try and wait it out!

M

I'm going to go an set a rocket and smoke bomb off. Try and scare the rain into submission......

Andy

Jem and I've had a fly but got rained off around quarter to six

saw Jem as i was on the way home.

Ive not given up car still loaded so may head down as its stoped here in Rhyl

M

Still raining here in Abergele, although it is quite light.....

I'm off to cut some vinyl, and invent a launchpad....

Andy

Pervert

Turned out quite a nice evening on me own at the field

Comp-arf tested and working perfectly, didnt fly though as I didnt trust the lipo retaining system so need to look at that more.



There's alot of lipo to secure

Should add wot meter said 4.32KW and CC logger says 4.28KW, either way im happy

O and HOTT said altitude of 0.1 feet with an RX temp of 18.6*C.

All very usefull im sure you will agree

M

Velcro is your friend I reckon. Instead of using the self adhesive velcro in "tension" as it were (i.e. a bit stuck to the wood and the opposite bit stuck to the pack), use a velcro strap. By that I mean some of that velcro that has the hook on one side, and the loop on the other. Wrap it around the structure, and the packs, and then overlap it. Velcro is immensely strong when loaded in shear. It's no where near as good in tension. There's a video on youtube of a car being towed using a couple of bits of velcro in shear....

Andy

Ive got tension on the lipo bay and 2 shear strap's. Just got nervous as I watched a vid of a 88"er thow its lipos out this afternoon

and being on my own i know no one would belive me that i didnt spank due to dump thump lol.

How many cells are them lipo's they are massive!

there is 20 cells of 5000mah in 2 packs of 5s2p 10000mah (10cells) all of that lot is one flight pack!

You may have noticed Rhyl get abit drker as ive just turned the charger on

M