Auto cutoff ?

[Spiff]

How does your Bleriot behave when out of batteries?

[Richard Hykawy]

Hey spiff , thanks for your reply , on the motor problem I have talked to some guy who told me to do just what you said about the brass bushin, and also told me that I shold get a new cap screw one with just threads at the end that screws into the motor and have a smoothe shaft for the rest of the screw that goes through propeller and gear also to get a thrust bearing that is used in r/c cars to out in place of the washer thats there now, so I think this will work , as for the preformance question you asked when my batteries get low it sends my servos crazy once it gets to a point where my engine is really low then the reciever I guess can't process the signal correctly and my servo's get thrown to there limits , its nuts but that's what happens to me hope this answers your question...

[Spiff]

OK. Your Breriot behaves just like mine.. And "nuts" is the correct word.. If this kind of behavior should occur in the air http://www.ikarus-modellbau.de/ubb/images/icons/frown.gif
Some kind of auto cutoff would have been nice..

My girlfriend made me some brass bushins so now I just have to get them in palce...
And a screw with a smooth shaft will make the construction as perfect as i should have been out of the box..

[Graham]

My Bleriot just lands, or has to fly downhill. I use the Ikarus flow fly controller, Tadiran cells, 20 + minute flights.

With my Simprop Spad S13, can't get it high enough to worry. About 8 minutes of battle to keep it in the air, won't fly on a six cell nicad pack, marginal on 3 x Tadiran. My Taube has a cut out in the speed controller, so the motor stops, 20 + minutes on bigish Nicad (Sub C, unknown capacity).