On board Glow driver

[Cdale03]

Has any one made their on DIY version of a on board glow system. The cheapest one I can find is $60 bucks. I read one article about a simple c-cell battery hooked up to a switch but when I tried it, it wouldn't make a glow plug glow red hot like my starter does(and my starter is a c-cell starter????)

As you can tell I know very little about electronics but I can always learn :D

[Haldor]

I read one article about a simple c-cell battery hooked up to a switch but when I tried it, it wouldn't make a glow plug glow red hot like my starter does(and my starter is a c-cell starter????)


Your SubC cell starter has direct connection with the plug, a remote cell will have less voltage (=less glow) when connected through thin wires. using thicker wires will help as this reduce resistance thus less voltage is lost.

[Cdale03]

Thanks I'll try that I was just using the thin wires that come on one of the RS battery trays. It would make the glow plug smoke a little but not glow .

[Acetronics]

Hi Cdale,

If you can read French ( I'm not perfect...i know ! ) try here :
http://aeronews.free.fr/archivesarticles/19-electropratique.zip
you won't be deceived !!!

Alain

[jmbneaf]

This works pretty good:

http://www.hansenhobbies.com/products/rcelkits/erskit/

-J