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Old 09-22-2012 | 01:13 PM
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Default RE: Peak amp draw durring start

ORIGINAL: flyinfool1

Has anyone measured the peak amp draw during the start / flight / shutdown of a kerostart turbine.
Yeap!! A kingtech K170 seem to have a 35watt(5.5amps on a 2S pack) burner and uses 100mAh for one start :-)

I see no point in registering the peak as a stalled our speed 300 starter uses maybe 50A "peak" but that's only a tiny bit of time.