<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:10pt"><div>BTW, I'm new to electric pattern so sorry if this has been discussed and I missed it.<br><br>I've had one, and only one, flight out of at least 40 where I landed and the HV-85 was beeping an over current alarm (3 beeps). Only happened once and my data logger said it was a normal flight, max of 64 amps (but my data logger is filtered and averaged so it would miss a spike). Same batteries, same prop, same everything. The maH used and put back in on the next charge were completely normal. I had the current limiting set to insensitive. I emailed Castle and got this response:<br><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Turn your current limiting to
disabled, as you should in F3A planes. </p>
<pre>Joe Ford<br><br>Product Specialist<br><br><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1244324899_2">Castle Creations<br><br></span></pre>Are other people disabling their current limits? I've only had the one flight where the HV-85 said there was an over current and I couldn't hear or tell anything in the flight that was any different from any other flight. I did disable the over current but am having second thoughts. I couldn't tell that it ever had any effect, even on that one flight. If it doesn't have any effect, it sounds like a little extra protection. I'm tempted to go back to insensitive.<br><br>Ed<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">From:</span></b> Ed White <edvwhite@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, June 6, 2009 4:45:55 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [NSRCA-discussion] HV-85 PWM Outrunner Mode<br></font><br>
<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>I've been using the new version 2.12 firmware for few weeks. Last night I discovered that under PWM there is a new setting called "Outrunner Mode". I tried it today and really liked it. The throttle response felt smoother. The ESC was not warm after the flights and I think it cut my amps a little. <br><br>Anybody else have any experience with this?<br><br>Running a Dualsky 12T and have both Zippy packs and TrueRC(one 10C and one 15C). At first I thought the TrueRC had a little more top end power. Now I can't tell a difference. Perhap the Zippys seem to need more break-in. I've got 11 or 12 flights each on two packs and they just seem to be getting better. Internal resistance readings are running well below 5 mohms on all twenty cells, many
cells below 4 mohms on any charge. IR seems to vary depending on how much charge is put in them. Have had a charge were all 10 cells were below 3 mohms.<br><br>Was going to post some data on Chris' website after I got a few more flights on them.<br><br>Ed<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>