gwright
Senior Heliman
Location: Melbourne, Fl
| Alan,.. the smile didn't work,..overheated, finally popped,.. Hacker master series 40-3P no work,..added CPU fan,.. worked fine, but no governer (not a heli ESC). The Schulze 45Ho has worked flawlessly without any overtemp shuttoffs. I'm not running a fan on the 45Ho on the logo 10. I've taken some readings with a wattmeter and the heli on a stand and you'd be AMAZED at how much surge current you can draw with the kontronics motor when inputting cyclic. Mine is hovering in the low 20 amp range, full collective is right at 32 amps,.. and with some cyclic it'll burst up in the high 40's, over 50 for brief periods. With the kontronics (fun600-18) motor the surge current goes WAY above those numbers and the rpms drop severely with cyclic inputs. The much higher KV hacker with the tiny pinion has the grunt to pull through the high cyclics without loading down nearly as much, and strangely enough it doesn't draw as much current in the peaks. All that being said,..you can't jerk it around like you do a glow machine. I get roughly 5 minutes flying it like that,..whereas I get 50% more flight time if I'm smooth enough to not make the blades "talk" during the flight. Same maneuvers, but smooth, and not banging sticks. If you're overheating the ESC, you're probably drawing lots of current with large cyclic inputs. It's always hot here,.. and I've flown it when the temps were in the high 80's without any overheating with my current setup. |
) if need be. Will be running 3 JR 3421 digital minis on the CCPM, a 460T HH gyro, JR 810G high speed digital on the tail and an R700 receiver.
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