[robair]

Gday All

This thread seems appropriate to notify of a project I have been working on. Reason being that the thread focus seems to be on frying things and/ or "irresponsible" amount of power.

I have a Sniper EP that was designed for a 26/12 motor driving a 8*5 prop. As I only had a 35/36 motor around I decided to upgrade. The motor box hangs off aft of the fuselage and when I had everything sorted out noted that it took 2* 2200Mah 3s batteries to balance. Aside from baulking at running on 6s there was no space left for y leads in the battery bay. So back to the drawing board.

The motor box and motor was remounted inside the fuselage and reinforced with carbon fibre strip and rod thus moving weight forward. This balanced perfectly with a 4s 2200 nanotech in the battery bay plus left enough space to be able to connect the battery to the esc and close the hatch. All looking good!

Powertrain is 4s 2200 nanotech, plush 60 sentry esc to the 35/36 motor running a 10*7 prop. The prop just fits between the tail booms.

Here's the good bit that proves I have been hanging around Kev and Steve too much. Run ups today gave the following performance.

On the bench WOT it draws 15.7V, 35.61amps, 569.1W. Nothing earth shattering there however all up weight is only 900g. Common rule of thumb is 250 to 300W per Kg equals "High Performance".

The airframe from an area rule perspective is very slippery so I suspect performance could be enough to take on the Strykers and Funjets.

Here's hoping for a good weekend next week so she can maiden, no way I am going to do this so heads up to Kieran who will hopefully help me and do the honours.

I will post some photos when able!

Cheers
Rob B