any merit in running dual battery packs ?

[Dean Pappas]

Hi Bill,
I dunno, but I'm thinking it was in the late sixties. When and to whom did he sell the company? Which flavor proportional was the radio you spoke of? I assume it was an analog of some sort. You know, when you look at the architectures used by the designers at the bleeding edge, back then, to get proportional control, it was awfully inventive. Even in this all-digital age, there may be something useful there.
Dean
 

Dean Pappas 
Sr. Design Engineer 
Kodeos Communications 
111 Corporate Blvd. 
South Plainfield, N.J. 07080 
(908) 222-7817 phone 
(908) 222-2392 fax 
d.pappas at kodeos.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Bill Glaze
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:58 AM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: any merit in running dual battery packs ?


Dean:
Was all this after Dunham sold out Orbit to the Japanese?  I, (along with Chuck Boyer) used to be sponsored by Bob, but a couple of years after going with United Airlines, (1964) I kind of left myself out of the loop.  In fact, our entire group started off in different directions. (Motorcycles, private flying, race boats, etc. but that's a different time and story.)
I had occasion to fly the first transistorized true proportional that I knew of  ~1958 or so; Zel Ritchie asked me to evaluate it for him.  I flew it a few times and told myself:  "this is the way it should be done."  Of course, I told him also!<G>

Bill Glaze

Dean Pappas wrote: 

I can still picture the old Orbit ad in my head, the Pattern plane used as a test case was a Super Duck. I think it was the successor to the Cold Duck, which was presented as a construction article in RCM a million years ago.
 

Dean Pappas 
Sr. Design Engineer 
Kodeos Communications 
111 Corporate Blvd. 
South Plainfield, N.J. 07080 
(908) 222-7817 phone 
(908) 222-2392 fax 
d.pappas at kodeos.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [ mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Bob Richards
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 3:26 PM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: RE: any merit in running dual battery packs ?


Dean,
 
I did not know Orbit did that. I know Proline did. I loved those Competition single-stick radios.
 
Bob R.

Dean Pappas  <mailto:d.pappas at kodeos.com> <d.pappas at kodeos.com> wrote:

Hi Ron,
Nickel tends to fail short. That's actually good. Once upon a time, Orbit sold its packs with diodes across each cell to protect against failed-open cells.
 Try the Smart-Fly BATshare ... same bat time, same bat channel!
http://www.smart-fly.com/Products/BatShare/batshare.htm
 
later,
    Dean

Dean Pappas 
Sr. Design Engineer 
Kodeos Communications 
111 Corporate Blvd. 
South Plainfield, N.J. 07080 
(908) 222-7817 phone 
(908) 222-2392 fax 
d.pappas at kodeos.com 

 

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