RE: Lost a plane today
Wow, not to use 4.8V with 2.4 is news to me. I have three older planes with 4.8V Rx batteries. Two of them are 60-size warbirds which use JR retract servos that are only rated for 4.8V. These are fairly complex planes tht use 7 or 8 channels for flaps, retracts, etc. Quite a few flights, never a brown out or any other sign of problems. One spectrum and two JR receivers.
These planes have fairly good size NIMH packs (~2100mAh) that have been well taken care of, but the packs are 3 - 5 years old. I had one of the mechanical retracts bind up last month (worn out Robarts) and it did not cause a brown out (and least nothing I noticed flying the plane).
Greg