RE: Great Planes Little Toni
Marty,
Don is quite accurate on his description of the series/parallel combination. My original submission was downsized a bit due to typical space limitations in hardcopy magazines. At least the word got out to a large glow-powered audience.
The eight packs of 3-cell 1500mAh are a bit pricey so you can always start out with a 20-cell pack of CP2400 NiCds or GP3300 NiMH cells. I would buy two 10-cell packs and put them in series.
Next season, my Little Toni will have a slight upgrade to either 6s5p 1500 packs or the new 6.4AH unitized packs from FMA Direct or Kokam USA. I expect other companies to pick up the new line as I see Multiplex is already advertising them. Hobbico (Tower Hobbies) will certainly sell them as well. The advantaged of unitized packs is less combining of smaller packs and taps to each cell for true balancing on each charge with an appropriate charger.
Good luck!