Go to a weaker winch motor. If the winch motor can't break the line,
then the motor stops turning. For anyone who has used a F3b winch, you
know what happens. The F3b winch motors will only draw roughly 500 Amps
stalled while a Ford winch will go to 1000 amps or more. Then you live
with the lower input power.
tony estep wrote:
The 2-man tow setup puts a practical limit on F3J, but apparently that limit is
not fully compatible with the standard U.S. winch setup; that is, it seems that
the F3J scheme can launch bigger planes than our typical winches like to
handle. One imagines a nightmare scenario where the planes keep getting bigger,
and eventually as clubs need to replace their launch gear, they'll turn to
super-power Injoy or similar winches, and the cycle will repeat, and finally
we'll be flying models 40% of full-scale like the gas-power boys.
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