RE: [RCSE] Custom Battery Checker!!!

2002-12-31 Thread Bill Swingle
To achieve this, all you really need is an 8 ohm resistor with a voltmeter applied across it. It's not the final answer to your battery woes, but it is quite useful. Bill Swingle Janesville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubs

RE: [RCSE] You gotta REALLY wanna do this!!!

2002-12-31 Thread Bill Swingle
>>you could save an unlimited number pf programs and >>shuffle in and out the ones you neeeded The general idea to this thread is understandable. But I must confess some confusion. As I and several others have pointed out; Multiplex comes pretty close to what has been wished for right now. You ca

Re: [RCSE] Re: May be this will help?

2002-12-31 Thread Aerofoam
>This Sierra 2.5m glider is advertised as for F3f. Is anyone flying it? It looks good and the price is about what I >was shooting for to get these guys an entry level glider. I have heard good things about this plane, good thermal performance and good on the slope. A club in Olympia is catapu

[RCSE] Re: [F3F] Re: May be this will help?

2002-12-31 Thread James
As long as you don't mind a 4-peice wing with 3 bolt center, and 5mm carbon rod outer panel joiners...might be a good plan to leave the ballast box at home. James. - Original Message - From: "Mike Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, De

RE: [RCSE] Spirit 100 or Riser 100 ?

2002-12-31 Thread Stefan Smets
Thanks to all who responded to my question. Between these two planes, the Spirit was clearly the favourite, but some suggested the Oly II or the Res-Maxx, so I'll have some more thinking to do :-). Thanks all ! Have a great party tonight and a happy 2003. Stefan. --- Outgoing mail is certified

[RCSE] RE/ Ejector Pins

2002-12-31 Thread bmuss51 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi: I'm a Tool & Die maker for 30yrs. And no way I would trust to use an ejector pin for a wing rod. They may not bend until it's to late then they will snap. The reason for this is that they are heat treated. This means that they are hard but some what brittle. In the past I have found a mate

[RCSE] Custom Battery Checker!!!

2002-12-31 Thread allen2allen2002 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
George Steiner gave me a very cool battery checker I believe a construction article will be in RCM very soon. It puts a 500ma load on the battery as it checks the voltage. This will cause a bad cell to show up were, as a standard battery checker would show the pack as being fine. It is also us

[RCSE] New Year's Day Contest, Bloomington Indiana

2002-12-31 Thread bhoo . in
Yes, once again the great Thermal Chili will be will be at work in Bloomington Indiana on New Year's Day at the IU football stadium. Expect to start by 10a.m.. Bring your Standard or Two meter bird and fly with us. Be forewarned, it is a layed back contest using a sport winch and a tight landi

[RCSE] Servo wiring

2002-12-31 Thread ahearn_dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi folks ... Can anyone point me towards a good resource for wiring multiple servo wings. I'm getting ready to build my 1st full house ship and I'd like to have a tidy, robust means to plug the wing and servos in. I'm thinking of a sort of servo bus, were male and female plugs for wing servo'

[RCSE] For Sale - Escape

2002-12-31 Thread Steve Siebenaler
Title: For Sale - Escape White/purple bottom Jaro Muller Escape for sale. 6 servos in wing - 4 JR 368s and 2 JR 241s Volz micro maxx in fuselage. Drop in battery and Rx and fly. Ballast kit and stuff bag set included Nearly new condition, flown about 10 times (one minor blem) Will post

Re: [RCSE] You gotta REALLY wanna do this!!!

2002-12-31 Thread Mark Miller
I would love the ability to do the programming for different sailplanes on my computer at home and then transfer a given set of saved settings onto my transmitter. It would be very easy to do the GUI there and do all the heavy lifting before sending to the Tx. That way you coulod save an unlimited

Re: [RCSE] Looking for Suggestions

2002-12-31 Thread Jack Womack
Ray Hayes is soon to be kitting the Legionair series of sailplanes. There is a 100" version. I have a scratch built Leionair 100 that is ready to fly. You din't really mention purpose. Are you looking for RES, Open, or what? Best of luck with your search. Jack Womack --- Marty Timm <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [RCSE] Re: How to kill your HTML...

2002-12-31 Thread James V. Bacus
Another way might be to make a way to subscribe that is write only. Then just read the RCSE on a web based forum like http://www.mail-archive.com/soaring@airage.com/ Of course the above idea would require a change in the listserve software which is probably unlikely. Other real world possibilit

Re: [RCSE] Re: How to kill your HTML...

2002-12-31 Thread Jim Miller
i also belong to aquatic plants digest listserver which always strips html as well as attachments. their software always sends digest form however which i don't particularly like. jtm RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PR

[RCSE] Re: How to kill your HTML...

2002-12-31 Thread MSu1049321
This address is for a page with instructions for several e-mail clients/ browsers. If you don't know how to set your RCSE mail posts for ASCII text only, this may help... http://www.rrtc.net/avoiding-html/ The short answer to the problem for AOL'ers is the HTML thing is what AOL defaults to "o