<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I think the biggest problem for 8S battery fliers will be vertical performance, especially late in the flight.<div><br></div><div>Ron</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 27, 2012, at 7:38 PM, <a href="mailto:atwooddon@aol.com">atwooddon@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="black" size="2" face="arial">
<div>Keith, I think there was a recent thread on RCU discussing a 2M model with 8S. </div>
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<div>For same relative performance (minus weight impact) you will need to increase the amps by about 20-25% to get the same watts. You would either need a motor with a higher kV or a higher pitched prop or both to get similar watts.</div>
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<div>Don<br>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Keith Hoard <<a href="mailto:khoard@gmail.com">khoard@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: General pattern discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>><br>
Sent: Tue, Mar 27, 2012 2:06 pm<br>
Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] 8- cells?<br>
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Keith Hoard
Collierville, TN
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