ORIGINAL: Doug Cronkhite
ORIGINAL: Ron Stahl
I belive that many guys feel the need to spend money to impress themselves or others. The one thing I got rid of long ago was switches in the planes; I plug my one known good battery into an extension coming out of the rx.
The only problem with that Ron is HOW you unplug it from the extension. Pulling on the wires can cause early failure in the plugs. If you're pulling on the plug casing itself, then there's no issue and that's about as good as you'll get for power delivery.
My turbine F16 has no switches! Per above I just use my choice of plug which is the mltiplex MPX plug. Has 6 pins. You gang 3 X 3 for + and - by soldering. I run 2 batts admittedly which means I have 6 pins for + and 6 pins for -. Very simple set up and bullet proof IMO. Around 80 flights no issues and no powerbox. Back to the KISS principal. No switch and no powerbox! 2 X 8711's and 4 other digitals in there, gear and brake solenoids ECU etc.
A lot of us use dual batts RX for redundancy, but we all only have 1 batt in the TX. So what happens if the TX batt dies???? No one talks or thinks about that???? TX batts are the same technology as RX batts and can fail jsut the same!!!!!!!!!!!! To be totally honest, all I worry about when I fly is that I don't get a flame out in a BAD spot and that the gear comes down when I comand it to. It is up to the pilot then to put it on the ground. I must also say I have seen way more crashes and damage done on landings than I have ever seen form a system failure of some description or RX batt dying in flight?
MHO and 2 C! Hope this helps and my answer is yes we do!!
Mav