10 Minutes on stock 8 cell !

Just for fun I decided to see how long I could hover on the stock battery, oh yeah I'm Brushless. I got just over 10 minutes of flight. So the stock battery is not a paper weight after all..... Lithium 3 cell is still well over 23 min but the stock gives me 10... wow!

How long were your flight times with a 295 stock motor??

Flight times?? You mean you can fly on a 8 cell 295 ? may 3-4 minutes if everything was perfect. Gear mesh was the bigest factor. I did get around 20 min a few times with the 295 and 3 cell litho. of course the motor and battery were hot.

We used to get times of around seven minutes with the 295 and 7 cells(250 mah sanyo),we had never heard of liths or brushless back then [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].
When i went to cp and 8 cell 250 sanyo i was getting six minutes.
Brushless motors and liths are a good way to disguise many potential inefficiency problems.
Theres a guy on rc forums ,claims to be getting 39 mins on 2 cell humming bird.
its not a race to see who can win but if you are getting double the time of someone else then whatever you are doing can only be good for the chopper.

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Was that before indoor plumbing?? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

OhHhh! you have that ! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

RotoryWingPilot, what brushless motor are you using? I assume it's not a CD Rom motor?

14 turn Astro 10. Yeah my CD rom motor is just one more project I need to get to.