Just saying "Hey!"

[litespeed]

I'm a helicopter flyer, looks like the only one, and wanted to get the forum rolling with it's first post. I fly a Raptor e620 with an Orbit 30-12 motor, 12 tooth pinion, CC85HV, HV UBEC, and 10s2p a123 cells. I get about 13 mins of sport flying and 10 mins of semi-aggressive light 3D on a 2100rpm headspeed. The a123 cells are the ones that come out of the Dewalt 36 volt cordless tools. I fly on $200 worth of batteries instead of the $500 to 600 ones that other's fly with. Electrics rule!

Any questions? Just ask!

I'd post some picture but I guess you can't here.

I belong to Spirts club in St. Charles and Buder park also.

Tom

[LarryB]

Glad to see you on this forum. Wanted to upgrade to the new M1-A123 cells. I have told myself no more Lipo purchases. And save for the M1 cells. Wanted to look at the cells, up close and personal before i do. Hope this site gets more people using it.

Wish it had an easy way to add pics also.

LarryB

[Eric Chandler]

Well, you are not the only heli flier out there that is for sure. I dont have any electrics (yet), Im still running Nitro but its all good fun. Electrics have come a long way in the time I have been out of flying, just amazing what can be done with them now. Hope you can make it out to the Fun Fly next weekend at Buder, should be a good time.

Maybe we can get a lil action going on the board, there are a number of guys flying electric and nitro at the field now. Time will tell.

[burn813]

Hey Eric,

welcome to the forum. Good to see some Heli Guys on here... Thank you for your interest.... Hope to see more of the Heli's here

Kyle

[dmcquinn]

Nice seeing you flying again. I've always enjoyed your aggressive heli flying. welcome back.

[Eric Chandler]

Thanks Kyle and Dave, Im glad to be back flying again. I have missed it and honestly, I have missed the company of all the fine people at Buder.

[patrick]

I fly on $200 worth of batteries instead of the $500 to 600 ones that other's fly with. Electrics rule!

Tom

Tom,

Can you elaborate on this. Like where you are getting the packs, how do you dissasemble them from the dewalt cases and make them rc ready. Ect. Because the only reason I am not going electric on the larger size birds (.40 and up) is the absurd cost of batteries.

I would have to have $400 worth to fly a 60 size plane once and you cant have just one set unless you dont mind waiting 1.5 hrs between flights to charge. Plus the fact that the RC branded LiPos are only rated for 100-300 charge cycles and the Dewalt units claim 2000 cycles!

[litespeed]

I fly on $200 worth of batteries instead of the $500 to 600 ones that other's fly with. Electrics rule!

Tom

Tom,

Can you elaborate on this. Like where you are getting the packs, how do you dissasemble them from the dewalt cases and make them rc ready. Ect. Because the only reason I am not going electric on the larger size birds (.40 and up) is the absurd cost of batteries.

I would have to have $400 worth to fly a 60 size plane once and you cant have just one set unless you dont mind waiting 1.5 hrs between flights to charge. Plus the fact that the RC branded LiPos are only rated for 100-300 charge cycles and the Dewalt units claim 2000 cycles!

Sorry but I forgot to check back on this.

I great disscussion has been on going for over a year on rcgroups,

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=566256

And a great how to assemble on tppacks.com here;

http://www.tppacks.com/documents/10-Cel ... ctions.pdf

I've bought all my packs off of Evil-bay (e-BAY!) and were shipped to my house for under 100 bux each. I then bought the tppacks build kits for 10 bux each for simpicity and ease. I have atleast 100 cycles on each pack and they still give me the same time and power. I also built a Senior Telemaster (8 ft wingspan one) that runs off of two of these in series. Gives me about 30 mins of flight. The weight is 12+ pounds but with the size of the wings it's not noticable. Running the biggest Rim Fire that I could get on 10s gives almost vertical performance.

Couldn't be happier with the whole a123 idea.

My next ship is a 90 sized electric running on 12s2p. It should be in the 3000-4000 watt range. all on 250 bux in batteries.

Life is good!

Tom

[LarryB]

Someone on E-bay has 50 of the Dewalt packs up for bid right now.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/DEWALT-DC9360-Heavy- ... dZViewItem

[patrick]

Sorry but I forgot to check back on this.

I great disscussion has been on going for over a year on rcgroups,

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=566256

And a great how to assemble on tppacks.com here;

http://www.tppacks.com/documents/10-Cel ... ctions.pdf

I've bought all my packs off of Evil-bay (e-BAY!) and were shipped to my house for under 100 bux each. I then bought the tppacks build kits for 10 bux each for simpicity and ease. I have atleast 100 cycles on each pack and they still give me the same time and power. I also built a Senior Telemaster (8 ft wingspan one) that runs off of two of these in series. Gives me about 30 mins of flight. The weight is 12+ pounds but with the size of the wings it's not noticable. Running the biggest Rim Fire that I could get on 10s gives almost vertical performance.

Couldn't be happier with the whole a123 idea.

My next ship is a 90 sized electric running on 12s2p. It should be in the 3000-4000 watt range. all on 250 bux in batteries.

Life is good!

Tom

I have yet to see a larger scale electric, Tom let me know when you are flying one. I'd like to see it.