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Electric Stunt => Gettin all AMP'ed up! => Topic started by: Jeff Traxler on August 28, 2011, 10:37:12 PM
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I just thought you folks in "Electric Stunt Land" might like to know that Electric stunters did well at the FCM contest in Muncie.Kenny Stevens won the "FCM Master Class" with one of his beautiful electric SV-22's.Bruce Reynolds won Advanced with his T-Rex.I won Intermediate with my All American PhD.Crist placed in the top 3 in Expert and OTS but I can't remember which place. ???Sorry buddy.The wind had a mind of it's own on both days,Blow or blow harder but that's OK.Fun was had by all,even the guys flying the "Slimers" LL~ LL~ LL~
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Electric Power rules.
Linheart
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Jeff,
I placed 3rd in OTS with my electric Jamison Special. I placed well down in Expert because I'm not flying very good right now. Certainly not because of my electric stunter.
Kenny and Bruce both used Turnigy set ups that flew very well. Congrats to Kenny, Bruce, and Jeff.
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Nice meeting you, Crist and good to see you again, Jeff. One tiny correction: I flew a VoltAire "Beta" model designed by my dad Bill. The fiberglass cowl (layed up by my buddy John Jordan) does look somewhat like a T-Rex.
A few weeks ago, I wanted to get this system ready for the FCM contest since my Cardinal Evolution needed to be retired. First flights were on 8/16/11 and were my first experiences of any type with electric power. I deliberately ran very safe settings on the powerplant and despite the plane being way out of trim (and 5.75 lap times!) was able to fly a big 'n ugly pattern after four 2 minute runs. Needless to say, I was very pleased.
Beta is still not trimmed very well and I still have the power dialed way back, but I can see quite a bit of potential with it. Time to play with props and motor settings and plane tweaks and all of that other good stuff. BTW, the contest flights were patterns number 12 and 13 for Beta, so there's still a long way to go.
I'll add Beta's specs to the "List Your Settings" area after I get everything a bit more optimized. However, I'll put down the basic setup:
Turnigy SK3548-900
Turnigy 4S 3600 batteries
Castle Ice 50 ESC
Hubin 6A timer
APC 12x6 EP, new style (I cut down a 13x6.5 EP to try later)
9400 RPM
~5.30 lap times
64' .018 lines
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I just thought you folks in "Electric Stunt Land" might like to know that Electric stunters did well at the FCM contest in Muncie.Kenny Stevens won the "FCM Master Class" with one of his beautiful electric SV-22's.Bruce Reynolds won Advanced with his T-Rex.I won Intermediate with my All American PhD.Crist placed in the top 3 in Expert and OTS but I can't remember which place. ???Sorry buddy.The wind had a mind of it's own on both days,Blow or blow harder but that's OK.Fun was had by all,even the guys flying the "Slimers" LL~ LL~ LL~
At least the better half can take a whiff/smell and tell what we have been doing all day. LL~ LL~ LL~Great you guys are getting all the electric stuff figered out. Thanks and where's the pics? H^^
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Crist and Bruce,
Sorry for the bits of misinformation.I just wanted to let everybody know the obvious.ELECTRIC RULES.BTW,I was flying a Turnigy.
Doc,
Hopefully somebody can post some pics.I type at the BLAZING speed of 8 WPM and can't figure out how to make the picture files small enough to download and I do a lot of typing for nothing.
Jeff
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Jeff,
I went to do a post on "Another Electric win" but you beat me to it. All-in-all electric had a good showing.
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While you were flying stunt with Electric power in the scale circles at the FCM contest we had Grant Hiestand win Sport scale with electric power, I took 3rd in sport scale with electric power. I think all told we had 4 or 5 electric powered scale models.
Grant was flying with a E-Flite E-160 and a 9S battery with the 1/3 scale spacewalker, that is a big motor.
Elecric power is taking over in the CL scale circle also.
Fred C.
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Very cool Fred!
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Hi Fred,
You E-Scale fellas' deserve a big "Hats Off" as well.I was there camping on Thursday and was on the L-pad most of Friday.I was lucky enough to see a few practice flights that afternoon.Both of you guys aircraft were impressive in flight.Hope to see ya next year.Just watching was a lot of fun,
Jeff
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Also my electric LA5 profile came in 4th. This is my first electric scale but I will never build another wet scale (except 1/2A twin). LL~
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This is really good news, but can someone tell me what FCM stands for. I feel like a dunce but I have now idea what contest this is.
Andy
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This is really good news, but can someone tell me what FCM stands for. I feel like a dunce but I have now idea what contest this is.
Andy
Fellowship of Christian Modelers
http://www.fcmodelers.com/fcmindex.htm
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Thanks Chris, I really didn't know.
Andy
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Jeff,
I placed 3rd in OTS with my electric Jamison Special. I placed well down in Expert because I'm not flying very good right now. Certainly not because of my electric stunter.
Kenny and Bruce both used Turnigy set ups that flew very well. Congrats to Kenny, Bruce, and Jeff.
Crist,
I cannot find an entry for the power train for your JS on the "List your setup" thread. Can you please enlighten me?
Thx,
Jim Howell
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Jim,
Thanks for the reminder. I posted the specs in "List Your Set Up".
Jamison Special
507 sq-in
38 1/2 oz
Scorpion SII-3020-890 kv
Rhino 4S 1550mah
Castle Phoenix 35A
Hubin FM-9
APC-E 11x5.5P
58 feet .012
4 min on time
9800rpm
5.2 sec
@1200mah used
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Thank you, Crist.
Jim
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These posts remind me so much of when I was rooting for 4 strokes. When Paul Walker won the Nats with his Saito 56, I was elated. Then Remi Beringer won the Worlds with his 56, and I went to the moon. Nice to see the different choices doing well.
P.S. Christophe Paysant Reloux just won the F3A pattern Worlds with a YS, ( again 6x) up against an almost all electric field. Just goes to show that anything can win if setup right!!
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Speaking of F3A ... The thing that was amusing was that for the first time, the E-to-Wet ratio (60% to 40%) was the same in the preliminaries, semi-finals and finals.
Previously equipment in the finals appeared to be affected more by sponsorships, and the finals would be wetter than the prelims. This has changed now.
Dean P.