Hi guys !

I've read lots off intresting things... and some less intresting things
Just want to share my experiences with you, I'm a F3A / F3M contest pilot in Belgium, not (yet) in the team, I hope very soon ! I pay for all my equipment, just try to get some intresting prices from distributors.
I have flown OS 2 stroke (140 / 160), YS 4 stroke (140L) and last year I've changed to electric, I flew a ZN Line Oxalys with a Hacker C50XL13 and an Acro90 controller.
I've bought 4 packs 4400 mAh from Tara, a Belgian manufacturer, they were OK, after about 40/50 flights I've borrowed a TP5300 pack from JP Zardini to make a flight... The Tara packs had lost a lot of capacity after +/-45 flights (I have no exact specs). I've ordered 2 TP packs, a 4000 and a 5300 which I flew from september untill now, power is great !!!, incredible, I'm almost never at full throttle, only in verticals in very windy conditions ... The weight of my Oxalys with the 4000 pack is about 4.400 gram ready to fly and about 4.630 with the 5300 pack. Power is really no problem, no idea about consumption. The 4000 is perfect for nice weather conditions but limit for windy conditions, so for contests I prefer to take no risks and fly the 5300, I will fly these this year (ordered 3 new packs which should arrive very soon).
JP Zardini flies the Cyclon motor, as he flies bigger and faster than I do, he needs 5300 packs, the 4000 pack is not enough !!!

Right now I'm finishing a second Oxalys for an electric motor, I have a second Hacker and also a Cyclon but don't know what to put in this plane... ?!
building report here : http://www.docinsane.com/component/o...ewtopic/t,188/

To get back to the topic, the "cheaper" batteries I've bought were going down after about 40 flights, also lots of inbalance between cells, now I have only about 20 flights with the TP batteries, and no difference between the cells, no lose of power untill now. Philippe Marquet and Christiaan Hans, Belgian team members have over 100 flights with their TP packs and they did'n notice any difference ! My choice for 2006 is made, Thunder Power