Electric conversion Seamaster video

[SaulOhio]

E-Flite Power 60 rewound as 7 turn.

After three days of great wind for windsurfing and kitesurfing on vacation in Salvo, North Carolina, I got a couple of good calm days to fly my Seamaster. After an 8 minute flight, I only depleted the 3700 ma batteries by 1800. I was flying mostly at half throttle, going to full only for the loop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD9UVf3KDII

[lupy]

very cool, what are you drawing amp wise at full? also what is your all up weight? Is it a thunder tiger seamaster?
Thanks, sure flys nice.

[SaulOhio]

60 A full throttle, 7 cells, which puts me in the killowatt club. I don't know the precise AUW, and I have no clue about Thundertiger. I bought it used at a swap meet and put my motor in it.

Unfortunately, it crashed a couple days after that flight. I mistakenly left it out overnight, and I think the night air got to the aileron servo. It is fixable. All the electronics seem to have survived fairly unscathed. The wing broke cleanly in two pieces, and I just have to rebuild the front half of the fuselage. I think I can vacuum form the nose piece.

[SaulOhio]

Here's an onboard video I took the day before the crash.
The camera is mounted on top of the nacelle, behind the prop, and this video shows why I need to make a dedicated AV plane for this sort of thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwA0rPri_AQ