| Feb 27, 2006 08:45 AM | |
| Pants |
Noted on the gear - cheers. This is not the greatest picture, but at least you can see the difference for the T-tail config. Also painted the front and spinner just to add some colour. |
| Feb 26, 2006 07:27 PM | |
| Dbox |
Pants, be carefull with this gear,one day I have noticed I lost power in the mid air,engene stall.What happend,gearbox ran out of grease complitely and jammed. Good thing plane was high above a ground and nothing happend.I heard from my French friends that they have now Carbonite gears replacement for these motors. High speed application gearboxes needed special grease too.What a hassle. But I like them for power/weight ratio reason. D... |
| Feb 26, 2006 03:54 PM | |
| Pants |
Hi Dbox, It should do a 2.2 quite easily, just put at least 14+ cells or the lipo equivalent behind it. I had this motor initially in a Petrel which came in at 1.9kg's on 12 cells and it had plenty of thrust on a 18x10 prop. I haven't re-greased my gearbox yet, as it has only had <1 hr total run time, but the gearbox is definately not the quietest gearbox I have heard. I did check it after the initial time I used the motor and everything seemed fine. Lantana is a very nasty animal... |
| Feb 26, 2006 12:50 PM | |
| Dbox |
Hey,Pants. I am planning to have this motor on 2.2 kg glider.I have Elite Mini on my other one. I want to ask You ,have you ever regreased gearbox,if you have ,how often? Is your gearbox noisy as mine in MiniElite?And a last one. What Australian animal chewed leading edge of your buddy?  D... |
| Feb 26, 2006 08:41 AM | |
| Pants |
Cyclone Elite 10 2metre Electric Glider I thought I would share my latest build on my electric glider. I have called it the Poodle. It's powered by a Cyclone Elite 10 motor from EM. Flying weight is 1.3kgs, wingspan is 1.9m, currently running on a 12x9 prop on 3s 2000mAh 18C LiPo, thrust is ~ 1.5kgs It is based upon the first plus fuselarge with my own wing design. Wing Aerofoil @ root chord is MH32, tip chord is RG14 Mod @ 7% thicknes, with carbon fibre spar vertical inserts. The wing itself weighs 366 grams. Currently the V-tail is a T-tail (will post more pics tomorrow), the V-tail was not effective enough in the first maiden and consequently got damaged enough that I rebuilt it with a fully floating T-tail design. Against advice, this motor is designed for a bigger prop, but I am interested in trying it out in slightly different configs than what it was intended to be used on. With the T-tail config, it flew very well, I could prop hang it, though top end speed was not very fast. It obviously had unlimited vertical. |
