<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Packing foam? Too heavy!!! LOL Actually that might be worth a try. I usually just keep the batteries in my van and then fly for a short time. </DIV>
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<DIV>John Pavlick<BR><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 10/9/08, Tom Simes <I><simestd@netexpress.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Tom Simes <simestd@netexpress.com><BR>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Park Flier<BR>To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><BR>Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 5:34 PM<BR><BR><PRE>On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:22:50 -0700 (PDT)
John Pavlick <jpavlick@idseng.com> wrote:
> As long as it doesn't get too cold you'll be fine with LiPO's.
> Otherwise choose something that will fly on Ni batteries or warm the
> LiPOs up before you fly.
> John Pavlick
The trick to flying foamies on lipos in the cold is to insulate the
packs so they retain some of the heat they generate during discharge.
One or two wraps of that ~1 mm packing foam is all that's necessary.
Tom - in Anchorage, where it does occasionally get cold :)
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