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ORIGINAL: dolstinske

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ORIGINAL: serious power

Jason,
You are missing a point.
The extra capacity also gives extra performance, relatively speaking, as the flight progresses - less % capacity used = less voltage drop !!
There is no trade off.
I suggest you think it through a little more.

Brian

There is another aspect here which you may want to consider consider, as I have discovered. A smaller battery means less overerall weigfht, which means less power consumed. Here is what  I find:

I have a very light Angel's Shadow, with a 5000 mAH pack, weighs 4800g. With a 4000mAh pack it weighs 4600g. One masters seguence with the 5000 mAh pack consumes 3500 mA, but the same sequence with the 4000 pack, consumes omly  3000 mA,  so the % capacity  used for each of these packs is nearly the same, the voltage at the end of the flight, is nearly the same.

I realize there could be other factors at play here, but I like the lighter pack and the way my plane performs with the reduced weight.

Your mileage may vary,

Dale

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ORIGINAL: Silent-AV8R

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ORIGINAL: cmoulder

If the cost can be amortized down to $1USD per flight I am happy. Everything after that is gravy.

Consider that if a gallon of nitro is $25/gallon, give or take.
That's about 19.5 cents an ounce.
16 ounces of fuel will cost you about $3.12.
To use only $1 per flight in nitro you could only use about 5 ounces.

Kind of an interesting comparison.