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MrRCSound Smoke unit
« on: April 09, 2015, 09:32:27 pm »
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Re: MrRCSound Smoke unit
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2015, 08:51:06 am »
That's about a hundred quid for the unit and thirty quid for the recommended LiPo batteries. Not exactly the cheapest, is it? I suppose it's fine as long as you only need a run-time of 2 minutes and 15 seconds.  ok2
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Re: MrRCSound Smoke unit
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2015, 09:27:54 am »
It seems to be designed for a somewhat different job to our ground based smoke units. It seems to be producing much more smoke than a typical, heavier, boat based unit. The higher current needed to cook off the extra smoke is no great disadvantage with shorter flight times over our longer float times. I doubt our smoke units would produce that amount of persisting smoke at wind speeds of 50 to 80 knots!
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Re: MrRCSound Smoke unit
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2015, 09:28:49 am »
May be in a fast electric? Are Team Sedgemoor still out there?
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Re: MrRCSound Smoke unit
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2015, 09:42:58 am »
Quote from: Inertia on April 10, 2015, 08:51:06 am
That's about a hundred quid for the unit and thirty quid for the recommended LiPo batteries. Not exactly the cheapest, is it? I suppose it's fine as long as you only need a run-time of 2 minutes and 15 seconds.  ok2
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and shipping and most likely custom's charges..
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Re: MrRCSound Smoke unit
« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2015, 10:04:10 am »

Agreed. Just thought it looked impressive!   :-)

Quote from: Inertia on April 10, 2015, 08:51:06 am
That's about a hundred quid for the unit and thirty quid for the recommended LiPo batteries. Not exactly the cheapest, is it? I suppose it's fine as long as you only need a run-time of 2 minutes and 15 seconds.  ok2
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Re: MrRCSound Smoke unit
« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2015, 10:50:23 am »
Quote from: Martin [Admin] on April 10, 2015, 10:04:10 am

Agreed. Just thought it looked impressive!   :-)

So what would it take to get a springer flying around like that ?.. :}
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Re: MrRCSound Smoke unit
« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2015, 11:49:24 am »
Quote from: TheLongBuild on April 10, 2015, 10:50:23 am
So what would it take to get a springer flying around like that ?.. :}

A couple of thousand quid would be a good place to start!
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Re: MrRCSound Smoke unit
« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2015, 12:14:08 pm »
A springer tug is about as airodynamic as a house brick, so a little bit of sanding may be
Required here and there {-)


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Re: MrRCSound Smoke unit
« Reply #9 on: April 10, 2015, 12:33:57 pm »

There's a Springer somewhere on Utube , with a brushless motor, that actually gets up on the plane!!!
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Re: MrRCSound Smoke unit
« Reply #10 on: April 10, 2015, 12:55:53 pm »
Do you mean this one Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u00w3znH9uc


I have to say for that much money and the batterys I would want more then 2 .5 mins run time.  if you look at the spec its pulls around 22 amps that's a lot of current
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Re: MrRCSound Smoke unit
« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2015, 10:32:02 pm »
Quote from: Martin [Admin] on April 10, 2015, 12:33:57 pm

There's a Springer somewhere on Utube , with a brushless motor, that actually gets up on the plane!!!
 

 i had a marks model bots tug that got up on the plane once ....  thats about as aerodynamic as a house brick too

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Re: MrRCSound Smoke unit
« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2015, 11:12:57 pm »
Quote from: Martin [Admin] on April 10, 2015, 12:33:57 pm

There's a Springer somewhere on Utube , with a brushless motor, that actually gets up on the plane!!!



Thats given me an idea for that jet drive thats been sitting on the shelf lol
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