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Nicad Batteries You must have a compete understanding on the care and feeding of the transmitter and receiver nicad battery packs before you make your first trip out to the field.
This battery pack powers the radio receiver in your plane. If the pack goes low on juice during the flight, your radio will die and your plane crash. The first thing you must learn after you get your r/c set is about nicad batteries. Your instructor will check you plane, your r/c installation, teach you to fly, you are the one that will be looking after the batteries. After, the leading cause of crashes are our dumb thumb doing stupid things while flying the plane and hitting the ground, dead batteries is the second leading cause of R/C crashes. Most receiver battery packs are constructed of nicad cells, four cells to a receiver pack and transmitters use a 8 cell pack.
You must learn about battery capacity, checking your pack with a voltmeter or loaded multimeter, what is cycling your batteries. Here are some places to start your education on nicad batteries. Read it all and absorb the information, the knowledge will save your planes. http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/hobby/techbat.htm http://www.emfso.org/emfso/electric_flight_articles_nicad.asp http://www.electrodynam.com/totm1097.htm Q&A, Rx/Tx battery pack seminar... in audio more to come |
