<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>I don't have an electric pattern plane (yet) but this is the system I use for everything electric that I fly.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have an ammo box I use to carry/store my batteries. I have velcro on all the batteries to help hold them in place in the plane (I don't depend on the velcro alone on the larger batteries). When the pack is charged, I stick it to velcro on the inside walls of the ammo box. This makes it very easy to do the other thing - check the voltage of the battery before I use it. When I place the spent batteries in the box, they lay on the bottom, with my voltmeter laying on top. :-)</DIV>
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<DIV>Bob R.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 8/3/09, Rex <I><trexlesh@msn.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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Ok.... I worked out this system for my charged/uncharged packs....<BR>I put a green band around the charged packs.... Red band on used packs....<BR>Then I made this set of rules..<BR>#1 always use the green/red bands and don't get lax with it....<BR>#2 always test the pack voltage before it goes into the plane....<BR>I should have made a #3 rule saying that if I skip #1 or #2, to have someone kick<BR>me right square in the butt!<BR>Ya, you guessed it! I got really lucky and made it just to the last manuever in FAI...<BR>I had a nice short approach for landing, so I didn't really have a problem, but the pack<BR>looked like a Staypuff marshmellow!<BR>So, from now on, no matter what, #2 is done... I've even tested a pack, then set it<BR>down to do something, then picked up the wrong pack to put in the plane. Anything <BR>can happen, so from now on, it's test the pack, put it in the plane!
Period! lol<BR> <BR>Rex<BR> <BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table>