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Actro 60/Flyware T-Rex
Hi all,
has anyone tested/seen/ flown the new Actro 60 series ( 2000 Watt)? Seems to be an outrunner with a front mount... or is it a standard " Actro"? T-Rex , flyware.de ( 3000 W) are these available yet? The Torcman TM 685 ( 2500 -3500 W) seems awful heavy ( over three pounds) ... anyone using one of these? Thanks, Andreas |
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The Actro 60 is a front-mount outrunner by the looks of it:
 The www.flyware.de (www.aero-model.com in the USA) T-Rex motors are on dislay at the Dortmund fair (more pictures) in Germany. The fair ends tomorrow. Met vriendelijke groet  Ron van Sommeren• LRK homebuilt outrunner e-motor discussion group. • Electric fly-in & lrk meet, June 22nd, 2003, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. T-Rex motor  www.flyware.de Wave ESC 
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Last edited by Ron van Sommeren; Apr 12, 2003 at 09:05 AM.
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Andreas, why do you wish the new Actro 60 to be a front mount? Planning to run a gearbox on it? My rear mount Actro 40-5 is doing fine even being pushed way beyond its intended limits. I put one of my old Mejlick 20-10 carbon fiber gas props on it the other day just to see what would happen. It pulled 66 amps on 32 cells and ran really smooth. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the rear mount on the 40 series motors.
Norm |
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LRKs
Norm,
simple survivalist motive.... a front mount will take a prop bump better than a rear-mount. I have heard from friends that the large rear-mount outrunners are less robust, the "lever" to rip the motor out is just longer...than a firewall/front-mounted one. Almost all the newer LRKs seem to be frontmounts-- Torcman,flyware, Axi,Plettenberg... only the mini lrk is a back mount. Andreas |
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The Actro 60 has to be mounted in front of the firewall (all Actro's, except the compact series), the standard www.flyware.de/www.aero-model.com, www.torcman.de/www.maxrivers.com, www.high-torque.de/www.high-torque.com, www.rs-motoren.de are mounted inside the fuselage. This has a major advantage: their outrunner rotors are only kept in place by the magnetic forces, when the plane/prop/spinner hits the 'deck', the shaft/rotor assembly can move backwards freely, the prop/spinner hits the firewall which takes the full brunt of the impact. Both flyware and torcman motors can be reversed for outside fuselage mounting, the shaft needs a retainer ring. * And Axl Rose from 'Guns 'n Roses' Met vriendelijke groet Ron van Sommeren• LRK homebuilt outrunner e-motor discussion group. • Electric fly-in & lrk meet, June 22nd, 2003, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. |
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Last edited by Ron van Sommeren; Apr 13, 2003 at 10:26 AM.
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