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Hi Murat I’ll take a look round and find out what I have, I can also take some photos too during this week if it stops raining🙄. I’ll message you when I have something to send if that’s OK.
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Hi Murat I have a Diamond too, bought back in the day at a Sandown show. The wings are foam veneered and Clive Hall was offering a selection of wing sections cut to order as you wanted at the time. I believe mine was and E374 / E193 mix. I didn’t build mine until about 2 years ago and I electrified it ( sacrilege I know). It flies really well on a 3s set up in rudder / elevator guise. I didn’t fit any airbrakes but it was popular at the time to use the canopy as an airbrake. The fuselage and wing are simular to the Seam Bannister Algebra 8 which I believe Clive Hall made the parts for too. if you would like any details please let me know And I should be able to locate the building sketches I have that came with the kit and I can photograph the model too if that helps. I can also let you have details of the electric set up I have if this is of interest. A nice classic design that flies really well for its age.
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Hi Gary I like the Propeak too. It’s simple and does the job on three aircraft without me having to remember to swap it over and make a trip to the shed to do so. The only issue is the TX channel has failed recently and I would like another as a spare but they seem to be unobtainium at the moment. Iflylilplanes, I like the Accucell idea as well, I’ll take a look at that and also try some Life packs (Thanks Richard and others for the idea) and see if they work for me too. Vapex Tech offer these and I have been very happy with the performance of their NIMHs.
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Thanks again for the responses. It looks like the B6 or one of its 4 button clones is the popular choice. Martin, thanks for the thought about Life batteries. Do you find they have a good usable life even if they are not used so often? I have a fair number of planes so they don’t all get flown so often. This was a problem with Nicads but the LSD nimhs seem to tolerate this treatment more readily.
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Hi All Thanks for the great responses so far. I have to say I have flown RC for the last 30+ years and the only time I’ve ever had a problem with RX power is when I have either had a faulty switch or a battery that was failing and that includes 27 MHz (Futaba, Skyleader & Fleet), 35 MHz(JR and Fleet) and 2.4 GHz (Spektrum and now FRsky) Having said that I mostly fly smaller IC models with 4 or 5 low spec servos so perhaps that’s why I’ve been so lucky. Going to 5 cells is no-go for me too as I tend to use a lot of my older JR 507 and 517 servos which I believe are not so good on the higher voltages. I have a B6 charger and it’s been great but I was trying to avoid buy 2 or 3 more but perhaps that’s the best solution. This is what I use when I want to cycle my nimh batteries. I’d forgotten about Mainlink and I have one of their really old Nicad cycler / chargers but it doesn’t play nicely with the nimh’s I’ve tried it with. Well built piece of kit though. I wondered if anyone might still be using the Graupner Multilader 7e or similar, some of the outputs on these were peak detect if I remember correctly. The most economic solution I have found is the Vapex smart charger which is about £11 and gives one output at any voltage between 4.8 and 12 volts @ 500mah. with peak detect. It’s also small and simple to use, an LED tells you where it’s at by changing colour I think.
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As well as flying electric powered models I also fly IC powered aircraft which use 4 cell 4.8v NIMH Eneloop or Vapextech batteries for the radio gear. I often take more than one IC plane to fly and using a single output charger is a pain and buying multiple chargers gets expensive. I currently use a Ripmax Propeak 4 output (3 x Rx and 1 x TX) peak detect charger to charge flight batteries. This is great as it copes with 4 or 5 cell packs and is simple to use and can be left unmonitored. If I needed to cycle or capacity check the flight packs I can use a standard four button charger I already have to charge my Lipo packs. I would like another multiple output peak detect charger but the Propeak seems to be out of stock everywhere at the moment and I was wondering what everyone else does? or am I the only dinosaur still doing it this way?
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Hi Daniel Have you seen this site: http://model-plans.co.uk/ He lists plans for the Fair SE5. I have successfully given him and bought plans from him in the past.
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Hi Soren Did you use the Mobius for the SB10 video too?, the quality is really good and It looks like a great slope site. Did you need to use a wide angle lens, C2 I think it is called, or are the videos with the standard A type lens? Thanks Shaun
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Thanks Soren that’s a good idea I might just have to steal it
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Great video Speedster, thanks for sharing. I really like the look of the wing mounted camera pods too, do you have any photos of that you could share please? I have a Mobius camera which would fit I think. Did you have to rebalance the glider or make any major trim changes? Thanks for any information in advance.
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Looking for an electric glider
Sheepish replied to David Still 1's topic in Gliders and Gliding - General Discussion
Hi David Take a look at Brian Austin’s designs Watts Up and Watts New. I’ve built both and if you like building they are great projects. The Watts New is RES the Watts Up is a potentially competitive F5j machine you build yourself. Brian can be found on the BARCS site if you know about this. -
Looking for an electric glider
Sheepish replied to David Still 1's topic in Gliders and Gliding - General Discussion
Hi David Take a look at Brian Austin’s designs Watts Up and Watts New. I’ve built both and if you like building they are great projects. The Watts New is RES the Watts Up is a potentially competitive F5j machine you build yourself. Brian can be found on the BARCS site if you know about this. -
Hi Cliff I have had issues in the past using wooden and also light APC props on OS 48’s. They tend to compress wooden prop hubs and seem to prefer a heavier Graupner or Master type prop imho. Size also matters! 😬
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Have you seen the Wikipedia page on the D3? There are some useful links to replica builds and full size construction videos that might be useful perhaps.
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Forum members' new models: Let's see them.
Sheepish replied to Paul Marsh's topic in All Things Model Flying
Watts New glider from plans by Brian Austin. A nice build from his plans, just a lot of it. Finished apart from some TX programming and a few small finishing jobs. -
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I’ve had the kit mk1 Wot 4 with a Super Tigre 45 and currently a plan built one with an OS52 fs and a Uno Wot with an Irvine 36. The Plan built Wot 4 is light (built up wing) and flies the nicest of all imho. The UNO on the Irvine 36 was one of my favourites though, it was built from a three channel kit but I added ailerons and removed the dihedral. Moving the c of g rearwards slowly improved the inverted aerobatics too. The 45 powered Wot 4 was OK but the lighter lower powered version is nicer to fly. Probably better still was an Acrowot with an OS70 fs, just about ideal and a great combination for a B test aircraft.
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Hi Stephen Have a look at this link it helped me a lot with my QX7 along with the other link you have already been sent. http://www.malvernsoaringassociation.co.uk/X7%28S%29%20and%20Companion%20Programming%20Guide.pdf Shaun
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Hi Take a look at Pica sim. its free or pay for extras, works well and is particularly good for gliders. You will need a USB adaptor from eBay with the Futaba buddy box plug. Shaun
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Forum members' new models: Let's see them.
Sheepish replied to Paul Marsh's topic in All Things Model Flying
One from a while ago, a Cold Duck built from an Outerzone plan download. OS61 FX from eBay and mechanical Hanno retracts from the 90’s
