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Old 09-09-2011 | 06:47 AM
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tomfiorentino
 
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From: Upstate NY although I often wonder why...
Default RE: Dual battery options for reciever

Agree with all of that...and yes, I suppose we can always trace back to some kind of failure point to tank the whole system. We eliminate as mucha s we can and make the system as reliable as possible.

Speaking of that, I'll just share my dual battery setup that I learned here on the forum.

I used to have dual A123's into two switches with one voltmagic. The voltmagic would go into a low voltage reading after one flight (50cc Extra with DA50) on a fresh charge to both batteries. Come to find out...the switches and related extensions were just enough to cause a peak low voltage reading (momentary as it was).

So I switched to a Powersafe receiver and the soft switch. So two batteries with EC 3 connectors going directly into the receiver and the softswitch is tiny, tiny! The voltmagic is so sensitive I just watch those readings, count my flights and after 5 flights (I can probably go to 8 but dont) I pull the canopy and re-charge. I actually like pulling the canopy because it never hurts to take a look at connections and so forth every 5 flights of so anyway.

This set-up makes me most comfortable, is very reliable and I will be using something very similar on a Giant Aeromaster project soon.

With the voltmagic it is bullet proof!

take care guys....

Tom