Voltage Regulator

[Troy Newman]

The JR stuff can handle 6V just fine...I would use that or the 5.7V. The
higher voltage will give better speed and power to the servos. The reason to
use a reg is that the speed and power is constant from first flight to last
flight. We spend lots of money on stronger and faster servos...the higher
voltage is an advantage....Will it make you a US Team member? NO! Will it
give your model better performance and is it possible to actually Feel the
improvements.....Yes the difference can be felt...and if you don't believe
it then try putting a pack reading 5.0V in the model fly your sequence then
put one in that reads 6.0V and fly the sequence....it will the proof that
you need.

With the 5.7V you have a little bit of margin below when the battery is
suppose to fall off in its voltage and the regulator stops regulating the
voltage.....If the RX battery is at the rated reg voltage the regulator is
not doing anything and is just passing thru.

My recommendation is to not fly a 5cell Nicad or Nimh below 6V....I don't
fly my Li-ion packs below 7.2V.

My current model has a 5.7V in it with the NMP Li-ion 2000mah pack...On JR
servos and RX


The Futaba systems don't like the 6V as well as JR so if using Futaba I
would stick with the 5.1V setup.....


I trust Jim Oddino's Regs. He is a smart guy and knows his stuff. While
there may be other products out there...The Jaccio regulators are the only
ones I trust.  I don't know if Jim sells them direct or not...But Central
others carry them. I have been buying these regs since like 98' or maybe
even before. Never had or seen a failure with this product. I know other
have complained about regs in general, all the ones I heard about were from
other manufacturers......Your mileage may vary but I trust Jim's product.


Troy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D Suding" <junk at velocitus.net>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 2:09 PM
Subject: Voltage Regulator


> I'm looking to replace my voltage regulator. I'm using 4 JR8411s and 1 JR
> mini servo. Jaccio has 5.1, 5.7 and 6.0 Volt regulators. Which one should
> I use?
>
> -Dennis
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