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  1. Thanks Simon it was a good result in the end. To be honest it has taken very little sorting to get it flying well. 1st step was giving the motor a bit of down and right thrust. And a bit of adjustment to the upper wing. I'm well pleased with it now. Very easy and predictable to fly. My first 'big' Lidl foamie biplane rc build below took a good few adjustments before it flew ok. Biplanes are funny creatures! 🤔.....
  2. Super new test flight for my Mini Lidl Biplane! Amazing what you can do with a couple of £5 foamies and some cheap rc parts. Build blog is linked at the end.
  3. Agreed, airframes are all different and some more efficient than others. But does give a rough guide of power to weight. Gives you a chance to see what difference different props make too.
  4. Ah interesting. And thanks. I'm glad I'm not the only one who comes up with these ways of amusing myself on rainy days! The only other scale I have with a hook is the old kind of spring balance. Very crude. Just a spring that you put under tension and it has a scale on it. I've got one 1.5kg scale and one that has 3kg scale. the 1.5 kg one shows divisions of 25g but nowhere near sensitive enough to measure say 40g or 45g. A small digital balance like that would have been easier. I just figured what can you do with what you do have! A mechanical way to change the thrust direction. It was a bit of fun really but reasonably accurate. I might improve it with a better trolley!
  5. A little idea I came up with on a wet afternoon. Might be useful? It kind of follows on from my '3 maidens 2 fails' video where I had an issue where a small 1s lipo had insufficient power to drive 2 small brushed motors in an experimental model. It's called C rating. 'The capacity of energy the battery can safely discharge, represented as a multiple of its overall capacity.' I hadn't considered it with small 1s lipos I use in small models. I'm sure it could be improved, eg I just cut a small V in the front of the trolley to take the fusi! Suggestions welcome (polite preferably please. 😉) You never stop learning in this hobby!
  6. Another attempt to 'successfully' maiden the Lidl Big Bird, plus the first flight of my Mini Lidl Hawker Hunter and another small foamie rc 'jet' test. How did it go? OK, the clue is in the video title. 😔 My analysis of the problems and a couple of tips too.
  7. A couple of weeks back I asked for suggestions for my next Lidl build after creating 10 big Lidl's and 4 mini Lidl's, including twins, 4 motors and biplane. I had a few suggestions, but in the end decided on something I hadn't tried before, a swept wing design somewhat inspired by the Hawker Hunter! (Hence the attempt at a silver finish (fail) and RAF roundels. She flies! Used a very cheap power train package from Banggood which has a 1104 motor, 5A esc, prop and prop saver. Works ok with a 1s and the FS2A rx. Link in video description. Very short and quick build blog and I've just seen these little foamies on Temu at less than £2. The question now, what next again? Swept wing BIG Lidl I think?
  8. Here's a quick look back at some of my last 14 Lidl and mini Lidl cheap foamie RC builds, plus a heads-up regarding my latest idea. (Hint. Swept wing.) Coming soon 😊. Watch this space!
  9. Fair comment! I was a bit surprised just how much discussion the post has created. I did include a very small diagram in the video of cells in series and tried to explain where the balance lead is connected, but as you say, some confused comments. Just wanted to show folk that one dead cell doesn't necessarily mean you need to throw away a lipo. 😉
  10. I know the way they are wired in a lipo thanks, I have built and repaired a good few lipos. I just didn't know how the ports were wired in my charger.
  11. I'm very guilty of speed watching, scrolling through, we all do it! I actually said in the video that had it been the centre cell of the 3 it would have been more of a pain of a job! Luckily as it was the end one it was easy to peel it off, re-solder the neg wire and put an old scrap 2s balance plug on. If balance socket leads are commoned to each socket I'll try using the 3 plug next time.
  12. I saw online that once a lipo has gone as far as zero they cannot be revived. 3.65v is less than 10% but I've done it from the low 3v mark. Worth doing for a little bit of work to have a useable 2s 800mA I reckon. I don't like chucking stuff away!
  13. You never said you opened the pack up and resoldered the pack and bypassing the dead cell, you made it sound like you only removed the balance lead.Sounds like a pain to save a few pounds. Did you actually watch the video? 😉 You can see I rebuilt and rewired the pack after removing the dead cell? Pain in the ass for some, but I enjoy messing with stuff and OK, it saves a couple of quid too. As I said, people are posting telling me they already do the same thing. My video was intended to be educational, but each to their own!
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