ORIGINAL: DougV
ORIGINAL: MikeMayberry
joe manor
Test flew my Hitec Aurora 9 today in a heavy carbon D80 today and this thing is amazing. I did several power down range checks inside my shop, closed myself in the next room, outside out of sight, 300ft away and could never get it to not work. I specked out the D80 and flew it for over an hour today with laps up to 337mph and it's working flawlessly. I really think the touchscreen, and onscreen receiver battery voltage is a huge value. I launched the plane with 6.7 volts and flew for an hour down to 6.2 volts. Hitec has something special here. I will continue to test this system and keep a log for those who are interested.
Joe
Faster than FAAST?!?!?!?
Hi Mike,
This one is on the Guinness RC speed record:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_9445103/tm.htm
By the way, the jet it's guided by FASST.
http://www.amtjets.com/
Doug.
DougV- You're right... so we're 8 mph short (337 vs. 345) of the jet with FAAST system. I guess I was a little premature with that statement... Oh well, once Joe's D160 hits the hill though, we'll easily eclipse that!
On another not... We did do some load testing with the Optima 9 and found out that the servo bus can easily handle 15+ amps continuous which is well beyond the average. Most 40% set ups average about 6 amps. The recommended set up here would be to use two HD Y-harnesses in channels with the highest power servos so that the battery is plugged into one side and the servo(s) in the other. This then allows the servo(s) in the Y to pull power directly for the batteries but still provides power for the other servos in the bus. So essentially you are only pulling power though bus with the other 7 ports and splitting the load between two batteries and more importantly connectors. This should result in each battery and connector providing about 3A each which is well within the limits of the connectors. I do believe two batteries are needed here as using one would raise the connector amperage to 6A which is pushing it.
Mike.