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Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
01-20-2008, 12:09 AM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

Hey I found Tuk on the map. Not much of Canada north of it. :D If it was me I'd stay with E-power. As long as you have electricity, you have fuel. There are some quality lipo batteries for...
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
01-19-2008, 09:30 PM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

GP lightened up the Super Sportster 20 kit to produce the SS-EP. Guys were hanging .28s and .32S on the SS 20. Maybe if you beefed up the firewall and battery area a .15 or .20 wouldn't shake it...
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
01-19-2008, 04:32 PM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

The glow .25 will shake the SS apart in short order. Much too robust an engine for the airframe IMHO. I wouldn't put a glow engine in anyway, nothing to be gained over a hot electric setup.

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Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
01-18-2008, 11:26 PM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

Either one of those power systems sounds like overkill to me. Maybe that's what you're after. ??

CR
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
12-29-2007, 12:07 PM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

No doubt about it. It's a great flying model with enough power and a light weight battery. I just hate to throw out a perfectly good motor and battery. However, if GP ever said they were...
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
12-29-2007, 01:09 AM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

I know what you're thinking. Me too. I hate to buy one, knowing that I'm going to trash the motor/esc/batttery. I sure wish GP would sell it sans power system. It's a sweet airplane.

CR
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
10-18-2006, 03:02 PM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

I tried the T-600 and gearbox. There was more power than the stock setup but not that much. Not worth the trouble, IMO. I finally went to a Hyperion 3013 brushless, 45 amp SC and 3150 3s lipo. ...
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
09-29-2006, 09:18 AM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

Glad you're happy with your SS EP. No one ever said the model wouldn't fly with the stock power system, it's just that most of us decided it was marginal. Any way you look at it, it really is a...
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
09-18-2006, 10:30 AM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

What are you planning to power it with?

CR
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
08-27-2006, 11:40 PM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

Mine was noseheavy with the car motor/gearbox and a 9.6 volt NiMH A-cell battery in the stock location. I had to shove the battery all the way back to correct this. I embedded the aileron servo...
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
08-27-2006, 11:11 PM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

Sounds like it could have been a radio failure. The trouble is that you don't know if you're looking at cause or effect of the crash. The only radio failure I have had was due to the switch...
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
08-27-2006, 11:00 AM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

Did you confirm that the radio gear failed? I wonder if the BEC played games on you. I've had some strange things happen lately when the battery got low and not only on my SS-EP.
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
08-27-2006, 09:23 AM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

Hi Mike,

What's the news on your SSEP? Flown it yet?

CR
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
08-20-2006, 09:53 PM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

Never heard of that before. It might be worth an Email to Great Planes in order to find out why. Maybe some crazy export/import restriction? MIght also ask your supplier. My curiousity is piqued....
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
08-20-2006, 09:03 PM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

Hi Mike,

I'm too lazy to remove my spinner, prop and cowl but I measured the original clamshell mount; it's ~43mm wide where it fits between the bearers. So the bearers are close to that...
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
08-07-2006, 11:10 AM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

Here are a couple of pics of my Hyperion outrunner installation. You can see the hole I cut in the center of the mounting plate for cooling airflow. I squared up the plate to the original mount...
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
08-07-2006, 10:50 AM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

I attached a few pics (I hope) of my hatch magnet installation. Lessee how they come out.

Shux, no pics. Wonder why. Maybe it timed out on me. I'll try again.

OK, you'll see that...
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
07-28-2006, 05:56 PM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

Not only that; when I went to brushless power, the increased airflow thru the fuse caused the rear of the hatch to lift. That's why I have the tongue in the rear and the magnets in front.

CR
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
07-28-2006, 09:56 AM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

You need to learn to fly the model at a high angle of attack, at part throttle. Here's how: get it up a couple of mistakes high. Experiment with the throttle setting until you find a setting that...
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
07-21-2006, 04:42 PM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

I added a short piece of lite ply to each of the fuse sides at the front of the battery compartment in order to make them thick enough to hold the small rare earth magnets from Radio Shack. Then I...
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
07-09-2006, 10:52 AM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

OOS means Out Of Sight. ;^)

The way I mounted my outrunner, it should break away if I crash the model. I made a small plywood plate with slots that slide over the existing mounting beams,...
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
06-26-2006, 01:43 PM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

I'm using a Hyperion 3013-14, a 40 amp E-flite ESC and 3s 3100 Lipo that will deliver 43 amps in bursts. I get OOS vertical at full power with a APC 10x7 Slofly prop. Yesterday I tried a 10x7E...
Forum: Electric Aerobatic & Sport Planes
06-08-2006, 09:45 PM
Replies: 263
Views: 67,519
Posted By Charley

RE: Great Planes Super Sportster EP with Modified Power System

Thanks. Lots of ways I can do it. I already have the magnets and would rather use them. I can see several way to do it; just thought someone might have a neato way.

CR
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