[NSRCA-discussion] Changing list behavior.

[Grow Pattern]

I have noticed a behavioral change in this discussion list over the years when it comes to electric power. There was always some polarization to Radios and engines etc.

What I noticed most was that the glow era engine owners were very willing to report their engine failures and a whole myriad of engine fixes and preventative medicine.

I still see the latter but not as much of the failure reporting. I put this down to sponsored pilot behavior with all products. I also noted a change at the top. Now most all the pilots are sponsored in one form or another. We always had a few sponsored pilots but now the unsponsored pilot is the exception.

Maybe it is time to have a Pro-Am separation in the awards?

I also noticed that the list does a lot more advertising/selling that it was ever intended to. That may be or not may be a good thing.

Judging by my off-list in-box a lot of folks do not post on the list what they think for fear of retributional responses. "Nil illegitium carborundom men!"

Regards,

Eric.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: George Kennie 
  To: NSRCA Mailing List 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 2:51 PM
  Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Dodged a Bullet Today!!!!


  Nope!,...... I think that I might have also had a similar experience with the Astro charger. 
  I had a pak that had been in storage for about 3 weeks and decided to top it off before flying, but noticed when I connected it to the charger that it started out at the maximum voltage and started increasing from there into territory I had never seen before.Recognizing that I had never seen voltages this high displayed on the screen before, I immediately terminated the charge. This all happened within a period of 15-20 seconds. 
  G. 
  jeffghughes at comcast.net wrote: 

     What everybody is assuming is that this was a screw up.It could also just have been a bad cell The manual does say not to put a fully charged pack on the charger and discharge first if any doubt.  
      -------------- Original message -------------- 
      From: Bob Richards <bob at toprudder.com> 
      I can't say how the charger works, but my uneducated guess would be that the voltage rise (internal impedance) with the application of current would be different between charged/uncharged cells. 
      Grow Pattern <pattern4u at comcast.net> wrote: 

        What still bothers me is:- If 3 fully charged cells = 12 V plus, and 4 
        discharged cells = 12 V Plus, then how does the charger know which is which?

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    Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Dodged a Bullet Today!!!! 
    Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:19:38 +0000 
    From: Bob Richards <bob at toprudder.com> 
    To: NSRCA Mailing List <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> 

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