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Note in the above link that there is a "chart" for power to weight considerations. This is pretty much duplicated in one of the sticky's at the top of the Beginners Forum.

When making the measurement for weight, you must consider everything, even though you may not have them in your posession. This means that you will have to select what power lever you want (based on performance), then find a motor, esc, battery pack combination - since you fly it already, you have servos and so on. Get the weight from the supplier for the products you are trying to use. Weigh the plane without the glow engine, fuel tank, and battery pack (the receiver and of course, the serovs, can be re-cycled so include them in your weight calculations). Add everything up and convert to pounds (if you have weights in ounces or grams) then compare that to the chart for watts per pound, using the total weight you found in your measuremets and the flying style you wish to use.

This will give you a pretty good ballpark figure for the conversion and if the selected electric products will work. If not, then get other figures on other electric combinations and re-calculate until you find what you need then head to the LHS or get your order in.

One thing I might mention here. Get more than one battery pack and a good balance charger. Consider that it could take you an hour at 1C charge rate to re-charge the used battery pack, this based on your flying style and throttle management, which will be really different for the electric than it was for the glow. This conversion could be costly so consider this as well as your flying time in your decision to make the conversion.

I prefer glow so I don't mind the clean-up. The reason is that the power level is constant throughout the flight, and I can land, refuel, then take off five minutes later with glow where with electric, if you have one battery pack, well, you will get one flight per hour.

There are a lot of advantages to electric as well as with glow. Weigh the differences before you make the choice to convert. If you like the electric conversion, well, knock yourself out and have fun.

CGr.