I must agree with Brian. My first winch used a two inch diameter
welded aluminum drum on a standard 12 volt Ford starter motor with a
12 volt battery. The two inch drum didn't produce enough line speed
to break lines so easy and we used much smaller lines. We finally
switched to larger
Sorry I'm not buying it.
My planes stall the winch, with a smaller drum, I get to turn it.
We don't use light line anymore, so line speed isn't an issue. The line
creates the line speed by the amount it puts on the drum.
During the morning, a bigger drum makes sense, during the noon baloon,
2
With all due respect I disagree Jeff.
At our local field when we launch to the north, it takes all the line off
the drum.. We get much softer, less powerful launches.. As opposed to when
we launch to the south we still have approximately half the winch line left
on the drum at the time of
You are all correct.
If you go to an extremely small drum and never launch with a lot of
tension, and it's not windy, you will probably never build up the
tension to get the small drum to break the line.
But if you put a lot of tension to start and have a good setup and some
wind, you can
With all due respect I disagree Jeff.
Brian Smith
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Charlie less drum diameter will lead to more line breaks. Since you have
more torque you can now crank more turns in and break the line easier. --
Jeff Steifel
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I agree with you to Brian.
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1 is the extereme, you won't get the plane moving fast enough.
1.5 is extreme too. 1.75
I'm not sure I understand the south vs the north. Wind direction I
understand, compass direction without wind direction I don't
I stand by what I said. I believe that for the FLS a 1.75 to a 2 drum
to have more power than the 2.5 to 3 Goughner. Think of the drum as a
transmission. If you
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1 is the extereme, you won't get
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