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Old 12-24-2006 | 08:47 AM
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Default RE: E-FLITE BLADE CP PRO

ORIGINAL: bbuchorn

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I put it up when we had a guy killed training with one down here in Houston. <snip
Wow. You can't just drop that out there without telling the story.


The cppro will tell you when the battery is in need of recharge, it will no longer sustain a hover. When you notice that you need significantly more throttle to hover or maneuver, you will be landing pretty quickly.

The eflite transmitter is basically a standard 6-channel radio with built-in eCCPM mixing. It has a buddy jack on the back, the round one, a standard patch cord will work with the radio, but I don't know if the radio will work with FMS since you can't turn off the eCCPM mixing feature in the TX.

Don't overdischarge your battery, let it cool off a few minutes before you recharge it (I put mine in a fireproof tray until I'm sure it isn't on fire, that is, it is in fact cooling down and not continuing to heat up), don't overcharge, don't charge at more than 1 C, do use a cell balancer, inspect carefully (and put in the fireproof tray for a while) after crashes, even minor ones.
If a cell swells, don't use it.
I put a hatchmark on mine every time I recharge it so I can know how old it is. I'm running out of room on some of them, over 60 recharges and still going strong.