Shaun Walsh

Ordered a torque wrench from Amazon, next day delivery. After 3 days I complained and they sent me another one. Three weeks later a neighbour two doors down on the other side of the road gave me a very wet parcel. It had been thrown over his side gate and embedded itself in his hedge half way down the path. Thanks Yodel.

If it's Yodel the only "delivery window" you will get will be the one they throw your parcel through, probably three doors down the road!

Many years ago the ability of the battery on my Mitsubishi Spacewagon to start the car depended upon how much you tightened the battery retaining strap. Tighten it too much and it wouldn't start. Compression of the battery appears to have broken an internal connection.

I had a diesel corsa that was a pig to start in winter, battery turned the motor over just fine. Turned out that when the starter motor was turning, the battery voltage dropped to between 9 and 10 volts which wasn't enough to operate the injectors.

If you put the watt meter between the battery and the Y lead it measures the current drawn by both motors. If you place the watt meter between the Y lead and either of the ESCs it will give you information for that motor/ESC only. Simples!

Obviously related to King Charles, probably a "Fitzroy".

I don't think parcel force will accept "naked" lipo batteries either. Had to return a laptop battery not long ago and had to use UPS who would accept them if you declared them and they provided the appropriate label for the parcel.

First time I enabled a gyro in flight, the model went crazy. Memo to self, ensure gyro moves control surfaces in the right direction before flight!

How about: Automated Recovery Services England Run by the Trotters of course. or Father Jack Hackett.

Royal Mail won't take lipo batteries unless contained within electronic equipment. Hobbyking will get a severe talking to when they're found out.

Make sure that the two grub screws holding the motor in the mount are both present and tight. A fellow club member maidened his aggressor and after 30 seconds the motor came out of the mount and, fortunately, stopped. On examination, the motor had first spun around winding up the leads all the way back to the ESC and then came out of the mount at which point one of the leads was ripped out of the motor causing it to stop. Required a new motor and , as a precaution, an ESC as we were unsure whether the broken lead had shorted the supply from the ESC.

My transmitter battery gets stored at whatever level of charge it is at when I last used it, unless it's a spare destined for long term storage in which case I will take it down to storage charge level. Not had a problem yet (touch wood). As the Tx requires a very low current it's not exactly taxing the battery and even a misused battery should power it for a reasonable amount of time.

https://alshobbies.co.uk/Als-Combo-Jamara-Microstar-Lipo-Battery-37V-160Mah-25C-x4-140160-4

Same here, C drive for operating system and programs, three other physical drives which comprise one large drive for main storage, two other hard drives for backup, all in removable caddies and two portable drives as secondary back up. Nice to find someone else who knows that "data" is a plural word.

Not if you tread on it in bare feet!😧

Brought back memories of Flixborough.

Probably depends on the lipo. My first set of lipo batteries were stored fully charged over one winter as I knew no better, most are severely compromised, effectively useless apart from low current applications and one became spherical when I charged it.

Same here, 3Ah 3s battery discharged at 6 amp with an ISDT100 much quicker than discharging with my Radient Duplex charger which discharges 2 batteries at 0.8 amps each

I believe that the both the Spektrum and Turnigy batteries have built in balancing circuits and so can be charged using just 2 wires. Seems to work for mine.

I never knew they applied makeup to Lancasters, you live and learn!

https://amp.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/nov/01/5 Reminded me of this.

Perhaps the point he was making was "a lot of electric vehicles were involved so that's why it took us so long to put the fire out"

I stand corrected.

If it's anything like the DX range I think you have to choose ACRO to have throttle available, SAILPLANE assumes no motor hence no option to reassign. On one of my motor gliders I have both throttle and spoiler controlled from the left stick, function is flipped using a 2 position switch but you have to remember to cut the motor using the motor kill switch before engaging flaps instead of throttling down otherwise it does a spectacular dive!

A fellow club member had numerous problems with a Spektrum Tx, the older silver model without diversity antennae. Eventually found that the aerial had broken where the aerial housing bent through 90 degrees and intermittent make/break would result in periodic loss of signal. A replacement aerial solved the problem. Plenty of other club members, including myself, fly Spektrum and they don't seem to be any more or less reliable than any other brand.