Best battery choice? + Current Draw used per flight

[Brian Young]

Thanks for the comments, very helpful. 

I did not go to full throttle as I didnt have the
plane properly restrained for that. I'll revise my
test method and see what happens.

The engine mount is a hyde type mount w/ nose ring.
Engine is Webra. 


--- "Henderson,Eric" <Eric.Henderson at gartner.com>
wrote:
> Ref. I move the trottle off idle a little and the
> current
> drops to about 2-2.5 Amps, so my throttle servo is
> bottoming a bit. 
>  
> This happens to me all the time. As you open the
> throttle the engine vibration smoothes out so the
> servos work less and draw less current. Did you got
> full throttle and did you see another increase???
>  
> In the"old" days we use to worry about retracts
> hanging up and draining a pack. Now we have a new
> demon to look out for and that is the juice
> hungry-worn-potted-digital.
>  
> So back to battery choice. No matter what the metal
> (Nicad, NiMH etc) I'll always go for the best
> capacity at the lightest weight... even if my 'cads
> still work... :-)
>  
>  
> 
>    
> 


=====
Brian Young
Tulsa
b4598070 at yahoo.com
918-745-6046h
918-838-0900w

__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more
http://tax.yahoo.com
=====================================
# To be removed from this list, send a message to 
# discussion-request at nsrca.org
# and put leave discussion on the first line of the body.
#