rbort
Elite Veteran
Location: Franklin, MA - U.S.A.
| Battery powered modelsAre cool if they are small, like a trex 450 or similar which still costs about $0.50 at best to $1 a flight. When you get into a large heli with electrics, they are costing the same or even more per flight than nitros. The only difference is that you prepay for "gas" in the form of a battery. And nurse it all you want, you're not going to get much more than 100 flights out of it, at least I don't see that on my trex 450 with TP 2100 packs. They do drop off in power after about 25 flights, and, by the time you get to 75 flights they are still flyable but nowhere near as fast rotor speed as a new battery - you can hear the difference when you take off.
Nevertheless electrics are cool and clean to operate. Short flight times indeed, so you need a half a dozen packs to get your fill when you go to the field.
I've converted my 450 to a night flying machine now. I love my gassers during the day, and at night I get an extra bang for my buck a flight flying it in the dark with night lights. 
-=>Raja.
1005 Xcell Gas, BHH G26 3D Plus, Jewel Generator
Spectra-g, BHH G26 3D Plus, Jewel Generator |
