Yesterday was a very good day for the Waco at the field. I'm slowly getting the Saito 170R3 sorted out. I've changed out the 4-cell battery for a 2S2P 5300A lipo with an Castle Creations 10A BEC. The battery is a TP Rx Lite that I believe is rated at about 15C and is about the same weight as the 4500 nimh that I was using. I was going to use a 5-cell pack, but I already had the lipo and just needed to buy the BEC, which was a lot cheaper than buying another battery. The engine runs a lot better, but the 7 o'clock cylinger stills drops off. Fortunately the battery setup gets the cylinder lit pretty reliably. Nice thing about the CC BEC is that you can set the voltage where you want it. Default setting on the BEC is 5.1 volts, I'm going to slowly increase the voltage to the plugs to keep them hotter. Someone said that they were using a 5-cell pack on the Sonic-Tronics driver without issue, I figure that if I stay under that I should be good. I put in 4 flights and need to charge the lipo to see how much maH was used for 4 flights. I can then figure out how many flights I can safely get on a charge.

On another note, I got my pilots ready to go, just need to clear coat them. I'll post pics later.

FB