Phil Green

You remember 'U-control' but not 'Button Man'? How can that be? 😁 😁 😁

Nice to hear some positive news 🙂 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-67244111

Ok scratch that, no, but then the receivers are much cheaper than the big brands. When you say you bought this from "the website", which one? a reputable dealer?

I would suggest you cut your losses with these broken transmitters and buy a new Flysky FS-I6 🙂 Fifty quid for a modern, reliable set with an excellent reputation. If you dont fancy Banggood or Ali there are a few UK stockists at maybe a fiver markup, eg https://howesmodels.co.uk/product/flysky-fs-i6-2-4g-6ch-transmitter-and-receiver-system-lcd-screen-latest-version/

Most 'engineering based' toys seem to be collectable now, those Cox .049 model cars for example 🙂

I think a change of prop would be good, more like a rubber-powered model, big area, big pitch

I enjoy Tom Stanton's videos, he's such an enthusiast and he'll give anything a fair crack. He's been playing with compressed-air models again, with more success this time despite a few setbacks:

I suppose I walked into that one Pat 🙂 but no - Shaun, Rob Day, Tobe, Mike_K, Paul and a bloke I dont know with a Pi based tranny, we frequently have a good size group of homebrewers up there, then at OW last month all the S/C sets were 2.4 homebrews 🙂

Whereas more recently at Nont Sarahs and again at Baildon Moor we've had days where every set at the slope was a 2.4 homebrew 🙂

Havent seen the film or the trailer but my immediate thought is that Berlin is rather a long way away for a Spit... 🙂

Mmmmmmm...... Felicity Kendal... 😀

Its ok for them to drop in temperature Brian, its heating that causes the voltage rise. A very cold cell charged to 4.2v and subsequently raised to room temperature can easily go well over the cells absolute max v In the opposite direction warm->cold it isnt a problem, if anything the voltage will drop as the cells cool 😉

The one thing you definitely mustnt do is to fully charge them outside in the cold, then bring them fully charged into a warm environment.

It isnt essential at all. It helps their longevity if they're not stored full, but the actual state of charge for storage really isnt critical, anywhere around 2/3 capacity, so on your last flight of the day, fly roughly about a third of your pack and you're good. Dont take them to storage level at 80 amps on a discharger, thats ridiculous! At that current your discharger cannot control cell balance because 80A is 200+ times greater than the typical maximum balance current, also it cant measure static cell voltage under maximum load. One amp will take a full 2200 to storage in 45 minutes relatively safely, and the balancer should be able to make adjustments as it goes. You can of course discharge without balance monitoring, but a bad cell could reverse and pop!

Hi Colin, I had a HD failure and lost a lot of notes and contacts, and to be honest I couldnt remember where the FLC Duette had come from 😉 so a belated thank you, as you can see its back in service and behaving impeccably! Its a shame Idris didnt get to see it, just before he passed away I'd been email chatting to him about Flight Link systems, he'd always been secretive about its internal workings but more recently was happy to open up :) Cheers & thanks again Phil PS >>overtaking on the inside of bouys ! when I did boats, going inside a buoy was a go-around penalty!

I still have an Easystar used mainly as a test-bed, presently it has a 1970s 27mhz Digi Ace radio converted to 35mhz. Has a 2300kv 380 inrunner, vertical to almost OOS then glide - half an hour on a good day! Once trimmed makes a fair single-channel rudder-only hack for a button transmitter. Popular for FPV which I tried but made me dizzy! There have been a few of very long-running Easystar threads on RCG - the model had massive worldwide support which was well deserved. Copies by HK and many others have been equally successful. A classic, much maligned by the 'experts' but a classic nonetheless :)

Exactly, its a good fix then Frank, I'd happily carry on using that tx 🙂

Sorry to harp on but this has me intrigued Frank 😀 Where does this 3.4v reading come from, the transmitter display? or a multimeter actually on the battery terminals? and after its shut down at 3.4v what does the battery itself measure? On first reading it sounded like the tx was heavily loading the battery, ie a partial short of a duff reg, but now it looks like just an HR battery feed caused by corrosion, is that what you're thinking too? It would account for a low v shown on the tx display despite a good battery. .

I've several standard-size Coronas, I think they're great servos. I have a pal who wont use anything else.

Does the transmitter or battery get hot Frank? its probably just the regulator blown

Beautiful Eric, & well flown. Just one thing, from a scale perspective, I think a prop is a tad overscale.... (2:20)

I'm a trusting sort, if Martin, Paul & Futura say it happened then my first assumption is that it happened 🙂

I've gone full circle, an OS Pixie Single Channel in 1965, then Staveley analogue propo, Fleet, DigiAce, Futaba FF7, never any trouble at all, then a month of Taranis before I sold it (nothing wrong with it, just didnt do anything for me...), then during lockdown developed my homebrew FHSS gear which I use exclusively now and today my favourite slope soarer is my Moonbeam on an OS Pixie Single Channel again but 2.4g FHSS, full circle back to 1965! Reasons for changing gear were mostly wear & tear, age - never had loads of receivers so never a huge investment. My current receivers cost maybe a fiver to make 🙂 Incidentally, slightly off topic - someone said Model Match was for him a 'game changer' - I have a different approach - all my reversing, mixers, etc settings are held in each individual receiver, the transmitter never changes from model to model but you cant fly 'with the wrong model memory' selected cos there arent any to select - just switch on and fly anything! To me, model memories in the transmitter that have to be tied to a 'dumb' receiver seems an odd way to do things 🙂 Cheers Phil_G