[MT-ALES] Don't be me.....

[Robert Blumer]

Curtis,

what voltage is you bec set for ?

not sure about what you were seeing, if the GPS was sending from plane 
and Vario sending descending tone, sound like a brown out and not enough 
power for servos.

most rx these day's work down to 1 cell voltage.

bob

On 7/8/2021 8:20 AM, CURTIS SUTER via MT-ALES wrote:
> Castle ICE Lite 50
> Curtis
>
> Powered by the Dark Side of the Merle
>
> On Jul 8, 2021, at 08:19, Robert Blumer via MT-ALES 
> <mt-ales at lists.webworks.net> wrote:
>
> 
>
> Curtis,
>
> What ESC are you using in the plane?
>
> bob
>
> On 7/8/2021 7:20 AM, CURTIS SUTER via MT-ALES wrote:
>>
>> Don’t be me!  @$*%)#
>>
>> I am so addicted to this Triangle Racing.  I haven’t practiced 
>> anything so devotedly in years.
>>
>> Yesterday morning I’m out all by myself and am flying/practicing and 
>> having a great time in marginal conditions.  A bit of overcast and a 
>> cool morning.  I launched and flew a few laps and decided to go up 
>> for a second attempt.  I always get two launches in F5J per battery 
>> charge.  Our field is along a road with some power lines along it.  
>> We’ve had a few planes tangle with them and it all cases the woodies 
>> survive but the carbon planes, well not so much.  I get a couple laps 
>> in then am down to about 50-75m and am circling in what I think may 
>> be lift on the wrong side of the power lines.  I’m listening to the 
>> GPS Vario and notice, that when I try to turn the model it doesn’t 
>> respond! Yikes!  I look at the transmitter and all is good but still 
>> no response.  The vario is still beeping away.  She’s just in a nice 
>> shallow turn and descending slowly.  I’m about 300m down range so 
>> start running, holding the transmitter up over my head and nothing.  
>> I turned the transmitter off and back on with no response.  The model 
>> is nice and happy going round and round with just a slight pitch 
>> phugoid going on.  I jump the first water line and keep running.  The 
>> model is now about over the power lines and much lower and I say to 
>> myself please oh please don’t hit them.  It makes it over them and 
>> now she’s back over the main field.  Now it’s much lower and over the 
>> second set of water lines and I’m like please don’t hit the water 
>> line, just land in the nice alfalfa and she’ll be okay.  She goes 
>> over the line in a slight 20-30 degree bank, pitches up and has a 
>> slight stall and as the nose drops the wings level and she lands 
>> slightly nose down in the alfalfa in perfect condition!  Whew!  Now 
>> that wasn’t fun at all, but it was like winning the lottery.  I 
>> opened the hatch and the RC Electronics RC Multi 3 device display was 
>> lit up and working.  The receiver had no lights nor did the Sparrow 
>> GPS unit.  I cycled the battery and no change. So I walk back to the 
>> pickup truck and put a meter on the battery and the three cells read 
>> 3.05v, 2.80v and 2.99v.  Yikes!  Put in another battery and I flew 
>> some more triangles.  What a day!  Best I could do was 2 Triangles 
>> all morning, but the model is luckily still in one piece.  That I 
>> call a great day!
>>
>> Curtis
>>
>>
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