gwright
Senior Heliman
Location: Melbourne, Fl
My Posts This: Topic Forum | I get around 6 minutes now with the 11L and 13 tooth pinion,..but I'm using 3000 panasonic hydrides, so duration is a bit more than 2400 nicads. I'm also running 90% on the governer now for lots more rpms. I know of two cases where people complained about 3 minute flights with 2400's and both of them had 15 tooth pinions on the 11L. The 11L hacker is a very high KV motor, and just one tooth more on the pinion is a DRASTIC change,..hence their low flight times. it is, however, pretty "ballistic" with 15 teeth  . I shoot for 6 minutes of flying,.. with about 5+ of hard 3D, then some "playing around" at low level,.. piro/backwards/sideways circles and 8's. I actually enjoy that more than the hard 3D,.. as it's much more difficult to do smoothly,.. but everyone wants to see full 3D,.. so I generally fly that way in "public", so to speak. If I run 75% governer and just fly around low level like that I get over 8 minutes,.. have even hit 10 once,..being very smooth. Flight time is very much dependant on flying style,.. the more abrupt you are with things (banging the sticks) the lower your flight time,..and it's an exponential relationship. I average close to 30 amps throughout a flight,..hence 6 minutes on 3000's,.. but hover current is about 22~23 amps, and if you load it hard, it can surge to well over double that. I've let a few other people fly my 10, and one of them got a 4 minute flight,..the only difference being flying style. |
(can see why it wasn't done before though
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