As my slow flying Cavalier, epower flew by, smoke trailing from the nose, my first thought was ,"gee, that looks neat"!  What a dumb thought, then I was thinking, "oh, oh, that ones gonna burn to a crisp".

Apparently when the prop gets tangled in grass and stops, you do NOT restart it like an IC engine. You disconnect the battery and let the EC cool, I mean cool.  Three attempts to get it off the wet, long grass so Jim Howell hand launched it for me. It flew awfully slow. Hmm, motor isn't up to speed. Wonder whats going on, then the smoke, that's what's going on. The Castle Phoenix Icelite 50 is toast. Smelly toast.  Plane got scorched. I kept calm. No sense getting all excited, The pit crew did that for me. 

another excellent example of why people should use the Renecle timers.

Where does one purchase them. I need them.

RSM sells them - or you can get them directly from Keith (although he is busy with his world champs model at the moment)

ditch the Castle ESCs too - get a ZTW or hobbywing Keiths timers work on any ESC as long is there is no governor mode ON/IN the ESC

I didnt believe in these timers until I tried them....now NO going back - I even sold the "high zoot" plett system I had to change out to his system......works better than ever!!

Thanks for the nice comments about my timers, guys. I burnt out my last Jeti Spin esc getting snagged in the grass so this was where the motivation to shut it down came from. My target group when I started out with the project was beginners and sport fliers, and the last thing that you need when getting started with with something new is to burn out expensive parts like esc's. Snagging the grass or pranging is part of the learning process and if these parts can survive, then this is a real nice feature.

As Wynn mentioned, I'm trying to get my new stunter ready for the world champs (I'll post some pics soon) and it's always a nightmare to get all the other stuff (paperwork etc.) sorted when you travel overseas. I will however be sending Eric at RSM more stock in a day or so, so humble apologies for any delays. I will do my best to keep the supply going a lot better soon. Thanks so much for all the support, as it helps to fund my world champs trip. I really appreciate it.

Keith R

Go get a scrap peice of carpet for flying off of deep grass.   Saves a lot of grief.  Mine is about 30 inches wide by about 12 foot long.

Ty I might also recommend a KR timer, when it senses a prop strike it quickly shuts the power off saving the ESC, Motor, and Battery.  I have personally experianced this problem both ways.  I burned up eveything on the first electric I built when it nosed over in the grass.  Haven't burned up anything since.
Andy