>so far learning has been without too much carnage - some poor listeners / >macho types have learned the hard way. I have been searching for better >ways to teach so I tried an experiment this weekend - I made a cable with >a 6V battery in it to go in the footswitch cable (to operate the 12V >solenoids) and switched to a 6V motor battery. This worked very well to >lower the winch power / speed by about a factor of four (guess). Boy you >should have seen me try to launch my Polaris the first time! Groan! The >delicate planes were launching well and much more slowly. Since we use >6V motor batteries it is pretty quick to plug in the special cable and >switch one motor cable to depower the winch. I expect to use this >approach again soon to teach new guys to pedal and throw in the
You could have just used a length of stainless strip in the motor circuit to reduce the voltage to the motor..... a piece of 25mm x 0.8 mm about 300 mm long would do the trick. I use two resistors of different length on my winch with three solenoids to get three speeds. Eddie the Eagle RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
