Frank Skilbeck

Still got my NGH 38cc, has run for a few months but ran fine last year, but they aren't the most powerful. What weight is the SE5, my NGH is in a 7.5kg sports model, and that's about it's limit.

I had a Discus from the Far East (can't remember who) on the first slope session a landing in the bracken caused cracking at the base of the fin, purely by the weight of the T tail and suddenly deceleration, we came to the conclusion that the fuselage was made from recycled egg shells. The wings were one hi covered foam and really good though.

Maybe a rescue hovercraft.

Yep I had this 9n the bench when setting up a glider, the switch was the culprit. Also had another model where the BEC was getting hot and cutting out, one of the 3 identical servos was drawing excessive current.

I had a Saito 100 in a Mustang, it ran well and I don't recall it vibrating much.

One more flying session and video, please.

Ran the motor on a 2s this afternoon, 24,300 rpm at 7.15v (lipo wasn't fully charged), so around 3,400kv 😜 probably not a good glider motor! It's probably out of an old EDF, it did run very smoothly.

Peter, no it's a long can outrunner.

Don't know, but we don't have the original prop anyway. Not sure if the motor would fit the existing gearbox either, if this motor isn't suitable we'll source something suitable.

Pat, thanks, I'll give that a go on a 2s lipo. The original was a geared brushless,

Helping a friend re-motor an old electric glider, currently has a geared 600 brushed motor but it's kaput, I found this 28mm diameter outrunner, but looking at it it's got 6 magnets and 9 coils, would I be correct in think this is a pretty high KV motor, probably best suited to a ducted fan?

As far as I'm aware the Lemon RXs are DSMX/DSM2 only and I've not seen an integrated stabilised Rx that is Futaba compatible, quite a few standalone stabilisers are SBus compatible so that would be the way to go. Quite a few flight controllers too and these would give more flexibility and potentially easier to set up.

Re aileron reflex, only a few degrees should help, having them raised will also reduce any adverse yaw. And program the radio to reduce differential when you raise the ailerons. I also typically put my landing aids on the "throttle" stick on my electric gliders so I can modulate them on landing, the either use flight modes to switch between throttle stick control of have the motor on a switch/slider.

Have you tried adding some reflex on the ailerons for landing, will kill some lift and reduce the tendency to tip stall. How much differential have you got on the ailerons, I have flown one 4 meter scale glider that was very prone to tip stalling and was much improved with 2:1 differential

Brian, where can I find how to calibrate the current sensor, I've got one and it under reads.