<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Cheap digital voltmeter with a 10 ohm 10 Watt resistor across the input.<div><br></div><div>Jim O</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 28, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Richard Strickland wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><br>I'm switching some of my stuff to 2 cell lipos into a regulator (learned the hard way that you separate the regulator on the OTHER side of the switch from the battery--but that's another story).<br>The question(s): What is a good, relatively small ESV that has a load to check the lipos? What voltage do you let them get down to before no go?<br>My 30 year old SO (Ye Olde ESV) ranges just miss that middle ground. I've got a voltmeter--but it's not loaded. On a 1200 pack(still lighter than 4 nicads WITH reg.) on four flights, the drop was from 8.4 down to 8.25V. I'm going to a 780 on another airplane and my understanding guys are getting up to 7-8 flights on that size pack. But how do you check them?<br> <br>Thanks,<br> <br>Richard<br><br><hr>See what people are saying about Windows Live. Check out featured posts.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.windowslive.com/connect?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_connect2_082008" target="_blank">Check It Out!</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><hr>Talk to your Yahoo! Friends via Windows Live Messenger.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.windowslive.com/explore/messenger?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_messenger_yahoo_082008" target="_new">Find Out How</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>_______________________________________________<br>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<br><a href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>