<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Lakeland!! Arrrgh!<div><br></div><div>Ron</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 18, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Stuart Chale wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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And I always thought Miami and Orlando were actually in Florida.
Who knew?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/18/2012 5:52 PM, Ronald Van Putte
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<blockquote cite="mid:B30AA37A-899E-468F-B8ED-0FC4D3EC0197@cox.net" type="cite"><base href="x-msg://1257/">Yeah, Rob is correct. When
we arrived at the field for the contest in January 2010, there was
frost on the grass! For those who don't know Florida, it's just
south of Orlando and about 200 miles north of Miami.
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<div>We (me especially) had problems with cold batteries.<br>
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<div>On Sep 18, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Robert Campbell wrote:</div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Lakeland contest,
February 2010! I was there!</font></div>
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Cold? What's that? Oh yeah, I have dim memory of
that sensation.
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<div>On Sep 18, 2012, at 6:01 AM, Jim Quinn
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<div style="margin-top: 0px;
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<div style="margin-top: 0px;
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<div style="margin-top: 0px;
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your battery was just too cold?</div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px;
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happen.</div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px;
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margin-left: 0px; ">As the season
progresses and our batteries get a lot
of use, and they, like us, get a
little tired from time to titme.</div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px;
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<div style="margin-top: 0px;
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margin-left: 0px; ">If that happens
again unplug the battery wait a minute
or two and plug it in again.</div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px;
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margin-left: 0px; ">When I've done
that it goes back to one beep.</div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px;
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little and fly my whole sequence.<br>
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Jim Quinn
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<hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">From:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Bob
Kane <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:getterflash@yahoo.com">getterflash@yahoo.com</a>><br>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px;
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ideas, thanks. </span></div>
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General pattern discussion
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<b><span style="font-weight:
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something as simple
as a bad connector
on the battery.
Double check it,
clean it and tighten
up the tension on it
if possible.</span></div>
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something
happen
Saturday that
is new for me
. . . . I
was going to
put up a
flight with my
62" Osiris for
a club
airshow, I
advanced the
throttle to
take off, the
plane
accelerated,
then the motor
quit. The
Castle
Controller was
emitting two
beeps,
indicating a
low voltage
error. One of
the club
members had a
meter that
measures
individual
cell </span>voltages<span style="font-size:
12pt; "> and
everything
looked OK. I
used another
pack to put up
a flight with
no issues.</span></div>
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transparent; "><span><span style="font-size:
12pt; ">When I
got home I
discharged the
suspect pack
and recharged
it. I flew it
yesterday and
it seemed to
work OK. I
was
practicing(!)
some </span>maneuvers<span style="font-size:
12pt; "> repeatedly
and the pack
quit
unexpectedly
again, but it
may have been
my fault for
not paying
attention to
the flight
time.</span></span></div>
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12pt; ">Is
this a sign of
pending
failure? The
pack has maybe
30 cycles on
it. I have
had other
packs get
puffy and weak
but this pack
is rock solid.
The pack is
a</span></span><span style="font-size:
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5S 5000mAH 25C
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