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electric to glow - 6/13/2007 3:28:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		Im tring to convert my ultra mini stick from electric to glow and was wondering if a 10 size motor would be to much or not enough ect... ???????????? any comments would be helpful
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RE: electric to glow - 6/13/2007 3:32:07 AM   
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RE: electric to glow - 6/13/2007 12:58:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		It's refreshing to see someone going to glow, instead of the other way around... Ross

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RE: electric to glow - 6/13/2007 3:04:10 PM   
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It's refreshing to see someone going to glow, instead of the other way around... Ross



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RE: electric to glow - 6/13/2007 4:15:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		I've got a Mini Ultra stick with an ASP .12. It flies excellent! I'll probably pick up a mini pulse XT and put a magnum .15 in her.

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RE: electric to glow - 6/14/2007 5:48:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		Theres tons of well made built up arfs out there just begging for conversion for 1/2A thru 15s martiin

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RE: electric to glow - 6/14/2007 6:14:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		The only problem is that the electric ARFS cost about 1 1/2 times as much as the gas version of the same size, even if they have no supplied motors or other electric gear! What is with that?

I have no problems with people converting to electric. The higher cost keeps me away. I just get angry when other suggest that amost nobody flies glow (not at my field, nor the neighboring field). Or that we should do away with them to save the enviornment.

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RE: electric to glow - 6/14/2007 6:38:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		The only reason is they can since its the new in thing , My SE5 by great planes is really nice and for the quality I do not think $ 89.95 to bad it has an AP 09 hornet in it (diesel conversion) Hobby people have a few in the 60 to 90 dolllar price ranges Hobby Lobby I think is a little pricy but good stuff, they Have a tiger moth that is $189 it is the same plane as Pacific aeromodels glow that is $219 you havr to look around martin

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RE: electric to glow - 6/14/2007 7:00:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		thanks for all the info eveybody.I dont think Ill ever buy another electric again, some of them are nice and fly nice but I cant stand waiting for batteries to charge. plus the cost of them is outrageuos. thanks again for all the help

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RE: electric to glow - 6/15/2007 2:04:40 AM   
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RE: electric to glow - 7/2/2007 3:56:46 AM   
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RE: electric to glow - 7/2/2007 2:21:15 PM   
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I cant stand waiting for batteries to charge.

I charge my electrics while I'm flying my glow powered birds .
I'm in total agreement on the cost of larger electrics being excessive. The highest I go is the 200 watt range, and that's for my 2M thermal sailplane.

Dieseldan,
How does the GP S.E.5a fly on diesel? That is one of my E-powered planes, gets a 10 min. flight on 3S 1250 lipo, very nice flying plane.
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RE: electric to glow - 7/3/2007 12:40:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		I agree... sick of these expensive lipos, especially when the planes get into the 500+ watt range.
$80+ batteries, $70 balancers, $100 chargers and $50+ esc's and finally you get to buy the brushless and maybe even a gearbox, which costs the same as a stand-alone-needs-fuel-only glow engine - im out on that.
Although I already have the stuff, I'm not buying any more of it if I dont have to.

I'm getting more and more glow biased everyday.
Messy fuel - fine.
Noisey - good, I like a plane to make noise, there is a certain satisfaction to it.
Extra weight and rx battery - fine, I'm not superthumb 3d guy anyway.
Field box, fuel, glow igniter, starter and battery - fine, its just one extra box to haul - so what.
The bang for the buck leans to glow for me.

Now... if I could just find a few scale'ish classic full-fuse aerobatic planes to fit a .25 glow motor..

Ya know... by the time a guy gets 2 or 3 electrics in the air, he could easily have a nice 50cc up and flying.

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RE: electric to glow - 7/3/2007 1:50:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		No sense on wasting any more rhetoric on the espense of the larger electrics its been said before the intresting thing is now in some the the Ads for the arfs after going thru the electric requirments some now read also for 15 -25 glow hmmmm martin

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RE: electric to glow - 7/3/2007 1:58:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Pilot pete have not have the SE5 conversion airborne yet but when I do will post pix and how it does think it will be a real winner martin
the Ultrafly Yak 54 will get a 21 or 25 in it after a hack job on the brushless mount and a add on firewall and mount martin

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