My 2008 season indoor packs. From (L to R) Evo20 400 mah, 300 mah and Evo lite 350 mah packs.
When i become Flight power team member i start testing FP lypo batteries. Durring seven months of hard testing i can say Flight power lypo packs show them selves as reliable hi quality products with top performance. As you understand from article title this time i will review smallest packs from FP for indoor flying.
These tiny packs probably are most universal product from Flight Power. My interest is not only F3P and F3A, i also fly with F3K gliders, and 350mah packs have place in every class where i can use them. Battery is quite small, (58mm/22.6mm/9.6mm) and weight for 350mah capacity pack is very good, only 20g (+-1g). Cells are rated as 18C (6.3A) continuous and up to 28C (9.8A) bursts. Considering that most modern super light indoor motors use no more than 6-8amps, packs can handle indoor flying of any kind with light planes up to 200g with no problem. With light competition F3P models (from 110g (monoplane) up to 180g (biplane)), 350mah have enough power for secure F3P-A and AM flight. My current Deluxe weight with lypo pack is 147g (with battery), and with one fresh pack i can fly F3P-A routine 3-4 time with no problem. Depending on how oft you use full throttle/how much Amp's draw your motor and what is plane RTF weight, flying time can be from 5 to 9 minutes on ussual F3P plane.
My best design for indoor pattern to date, Deluxe. New milled Deluxe RTF weight expecting to be about 135g.
My best design for aeromusical to date, SUltimate, this plane RTF weight is 131g with extra servo for special FX.
While 2007/2008 indoor season is going at full temp, i have one more great news and one more top product to add to review section. Famous and crazy German pilot Manuel Nubel (Well known Knuffel author and VPP wizard) with help of Mr. Holger Lambertus, create company www.slowflyworld.de that make and sell best electric products for today RC models. Im happy to add Slowflyworld to my sponsor list. And first product i will talk about is new motor DW 6/21-Ag.
I pick DW 6/21-Ag since it is lighter than my last year VPP motor DW8/18, and can deliver up to 500g trust with modern 20-30C lypo packs such as Flight Power EVO20 2S 400mah ! According to manufacturers this motor is wound with a silver-wire, that is made especially for it. The electric conductivity of silver is 10% less than of copper, which gives us less resistance and less electric loss.
My friend from Belgium Bert Delaere send me this letter with info about new products and discounts on his shop: www.aerobertics.com
Aerobertics work with such well known companies as Krill , SebArt, Oracover, Jersey Modeler , Futaba, Desert Aircraft, Mejzlik, Emcotec and many other. Check out Aerobertics website for many great offers, and contact Bert directly:
Since in last competitions in Mons i had some problems with Waypoint 060bb servos, for next indoor season i decide to switch to other brand servos Dymon D47. Dutch team use them, and this fact say allot:) These servos can work just fine from 3.6-9.6V, this allow to make some modification that give bigger speed and more torque, but precision stay same! Find out more on Van Der Vecht website:http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/d.vandervecht/indoor
Since Bert is modeller by himself (F3A; F3M ;F3P), you can expect good suggestions and advices from professional! Bert is Belgium F3M champion, this say allot!
