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Electric Stunt => Gettin all AMP'ed up! => Topic started by: Perry Rose on April 05, 2020, 07:49:12 AM
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How much voltage loss goes through the lines when they are on the ground? It's the only thing I can come up with to explain why my lines are dirty after each flight. My engine planes lines are not as dirty as the electric planes lines. Maybe that's why it's called the dirty south?
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I've had the opposite experience. Since I switched to electric the lines are far cleaner. I wipe them down after each flight and there's hardly any visible dirt on the wiping cloth. Go figure.
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How much voltage loss goes through the lines when they are on the ground? It's the only thing I can come up with to explain why my lines are dirty after each flight. My engine planes lines are not as dirty as the electric planes lines. Maybe that's why it's called the dirty south?
I've found the same thing I have no idea why. My theory is that there is less vibration in the lines with electric power, therefore we aren't shaking the dust off the lines as we fly. I guess this is as good a guess as any other?
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I don't see how there could be any electrical effect on dirt on the lines. It would take voltages in the thousands of volts on the lines (basically, an electrostatic charge), and a typical electrical setup simply doesn't generate that.
It's either something to do with less vibration, or perhaps no fog of oil in the air when you fly.
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My reply was a tongue in cheek wild ass guess, but it only takes 1 1/2 volts applied to a loop of wire to cause it to have a magnetic field. NOT thousands. Didn't you ever play with door bell battery like we used to use to start out models, a piece of wire and a big nail to make a magnet??? Or are you a millennial.. LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~
Since Perry and I are well acquainted, he knows I am kidding... H^^
Sorry -- I didn't put down my complete thought process.
Voltages of the sort that we have in our planes would make a magnetic field on the line, but in general if anything shorted to the lines there'd be smoke -- and there's no path from electronics to lines, anyway.
Which gets back to electrostatics, which also has no mechanism.
So, maybe it's just Evil Malign Forces.
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Evil Malign Forces.....not to be confused with Evil Malign Power
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I'm with Tim. Evil Malign Forces
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The planes always pick up some static charge when flying. It's highly dependent on weather conditions. Warm, dry, and calm seems to make it worse- more static, more dust.
The dust may be coming from how you wipe off your lines. A clean rag and solvent will clean off more dirt. Putting any kind of lubricant on stainless lines isn't necessary and will pick up dust.
You can make sure the plane is grounded by making sure you hand has electrical contact with the lines. The old easy just handles were great for zapping the flyer. Often one's hand would lose contact with the adjustment loop on the back and static would build up. The cure was some bare copper wire wrapped around the handle and the adjustment cable.