tommy s

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For all pilots who have been flying electric for awhile:

When at a contest do you charge all your batteries for the days rounds
in the morning or charge shortly before each round.

tommy s

can773

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Whenever you can!

Its not useful at all to "top up" or wait to charge right before a round, if you charged the pack the night before its just as good as if you charged it right before a round. A healthy lipo has a self discharge of maybe 1-2% per month, so overnight or even after a couple of days you are in the 1/10th's of a % capacity loss from self discharge

When you are consuming 400-500 mAh per minute in flight (almost 10/second) on average that little extra you put in by topping up is gone in a matter of seconds.

tommy s

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Thanks Chad,

Thats good to know. I'm new to electric pattern and was wandering because
some of the fields we fly at have no electricity for charging but I have enough
batteries for four rounds, so I'll just charge them the night before.

Thanks
tommy s

jumper666

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http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...92042&page=241

swlarcham

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Tommy
You should be good to go for 4 rounds BUT if we are together and a fifth round comes up, you always have an invitation to use my generator if need be. It can handle four charges with no strain. I got the Honda 2000 generator and justified it because it will run a 110 AC unit at home - Came in handy after Ike last year - I'm praying I don't need to use it this year for that.

Also Nederland and Crowley I think provided a big industrual generator for use last year. Jetero, and Larks(us) have electricity.

Also if you really wanted to you could get a deep cyle marine battery. Several people tried them at first and although they work of they are limited to just a few charges before they need recharging themselves. But with 4 packs 1 battery would be cheap insurance for a single recharge during the day.



Eddie

ps you gonna make it to Jim Sheffields the last weekend of the month. i am hoping to

tommy s

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Eddie,
Thanks for the offer. I might have to take you up on it.
We're planning on going to Jim's, hope to see you there.

Tommy