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Old 12-21-2004, 10:55 AM
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Greg Covey
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Default RE: "Watt's Up" R/C Watt Meter

Stephen,

Good to know. Hopefully, you're still young yet.

Spar,

I agree. I've been using multiple wattmeters between my larger glow conversions and micro-flight projects. Now I can use just one wattmeter for everything.

Here is another application that comes in handy for the lower-end chargers. You can monitor the charge that you put back into the pack and keep a closer eye on the actual current being applied to the pack. I love the inexpensive Apache 2500 chargers for 1-4 cell Lithium packs but often want to measure just how much I depleted the pack after a flight. The "Watt's Up" watt meter allows me to do it if I reverse the connector sex by using adapters. Shown here is an already charged 2-cell Kokam 1500mAh pack that I am just tweaking up to 8.4v.
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