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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Maybe it is time to have a Pro-Am separation in the
awards?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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!"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>Eric.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=geobet@gis.net href="mailto:geobet@gis.net">George Kennie</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 22, 2006 2:51
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Dodged a
Bullet Today!!!!</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Nope!,...... I think that I might have also had a similar
experience with the Astro charger. <BR>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. <BR>G.
<P>jeffghughes@comcast.net wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"> 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.
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Original message -------------- <BR>From: Bob Richards
<bob@toprudder.com> <BR>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.
<P><B><I>Grow Pattern <pattern4u@comcast.net></I></B> wrote:
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">What
still bothers me is:- If 3 fully charged cells = 12 V plus, and 4
<BR>discharged cells = 12 V Plus, then how does the charger know which
is which?</BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P><NOBR><B>Subject: </B>Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Dodged a Bullet
Today!!!!</NOBR> <BR><NOBR><B>Date: </B>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:19:38
+0000</NOBR> <BR><NOBR><B>From: </B>Bob Richards
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