Hi AA5BY,

Many are using single batteries for both ign & rx without the use of an IBEC. The TH life battey comes with multiple leads making connection easy to multiple switches for ign & rx. The IBEC does afford the opticle cutoff to be assigned to tx switch.

What size battery are you currently using? The ignition will draw some additional juice, seen referenced where DLE20 ignition draws about 60 mah/min. At that rate you'd be looking at an extra 2000mah.

Would think CA hinges would work for this size plane, but would give plenty of "meat" for gluing and pin them with round toothpicks.

T-man49