A year and a half between posts. I need to be more careful with blog addiction, I guess.
There's always something going on around the Wood neighborhood and I'll share a few items...well, the ones I can remember.
The LipoSack thing is still plenty healthy in the face of copies coming from various sources. We were picked up by Hobbico a couple of months ago and Hobby Lobby also picked us up just last week. We continue to get larger orders from far and wide just as the most recent from a distributor wannabe in Warswaw, Poland. Amazing.
We sent a couple of designs to the Federal Aviation Administration recently for inclusion in their search testing for a battery risk mitigation program they are developing. Aftermarket laptop and cell phone batteries are still an issue albeit quietly.
Speaking of lipos...
I had a near miss with a cell phone battery a couple of days ago. The battery wasn't holding capacity at all so I took the battery out to inspect it. When I unsnapped the back of the phone, the cover popped off under pressure. The pack's hardcase was swollen tight with a noticable bulge front and back! I took a picture of it before I disposed of it. The store upgraded my phone (which we also found had been recalled) for nada so all's well.
The 25e UltraStick project finally turned out well. Full lighting has been used at Chula Vista and a trip to Rosarito, BC for a fly-in. It's fairly easy to keep track of but I'm dropping it from 4s to 3s with the same 12x6 prop.
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