|
|
08-31-2016 09:19 AM | |
gixerfien |
Re: Can I use this motor??..with what prop?? cool, thanks for the tip |
08-31-2016 08:49 AM | |
tporter416 |
Re: Can I use this motor??..with what prop?? The motors and ESC's are greyed out because they want you to buy access to the full version. You can refresh a number of times until what you need is select-able. I would fill in the lipo, esc, motor and prop info and use the current meter. The more info you put in the better the calcs will be. Tom |
08-31-2016 08:27 AM | |
gixerfien |
Re: Can I use this motor??..with what prop?? Ok cool thanks, and ya its getting a yep 40 lol. I think I did pretty much have all the sections covered when I did that ecalc so I'm thinking that's where I start with an use a watt meter and check it out and go from there. How come when you try to select motors or esc's on the ecalc there are soo many that are grayed out and you really have to dick with it to get the motor you want to pop up and be available to select, had to much trouble to trying to get the motor selected since you can't choose a kv that with the esc I just set it to 40 max since yge40 was grayed out and unavailable to select, but I would way rather be able to select yge 40 Why is this? Gonna start building the flying wing today |
08-31-2016 07:59 AM | |
tporter416 |
Re: Can I use this motor??..with what prop?? Cory, I use ecalc for my planes and have found it very useful, however if you don't enter all the info the third dial does not change from electric power to current. You need to enter all your drive info for the calculator to work properly. I recently used it when I upgraded my HH spitfire from 3S to 4S, found the ammp draw on the calc to be 1A off what I measured at the field. I assume you are using a YEP 40A ESC? Use the YGE 40A in the selector, I did and it worked great. I found ecalc to be very accurate so follow what it says... (Disclaimer, ecalc only works as well as the info entered into it. ) |
08-31-2016 07:13 AM | |
stegl |
Re: Can I use this motor??..with what prop?? with a high kv motor as you have start with adjusting the finer pitch props to reduce current rather than diameter. I have a Scorpion 30 series heli motor I converted to aircraft and it moves real fast. Although it was a much lower kv on 4S . Ecalc is a good program but only to get you into the ballpark and not to be an end all as there are other factors to making it all work. Also recommend a Castle Creations ESC so as to be able to match up specs of your Scorpion motor which may help a bit. |
08-30-2016 11:22 PM | |
gixerfien |
Re: Can I use this motor??..with what prop?? how are you getting 65-70. I get a max of 43.72 amps when I do it ?!?.... |
08-30-2016 11:06 PM | |
twistedge |
Re: Can I use this motor??..with what prop?? I dunno about 5x4 on that Scorpion... looks like it'll still draw 65-70A.. I know they're tough, but the 2221-8 is rated for ~45A continous. I'm not sure you can just drop a propeller on a heli motor and call it a plane. |
08-30-2016 10:56 PM | |
gixerfien |
Re: Can I use this motor??..with what prop?? cool thanks, I just finished playing around with this other calc here too: http://flbeagle.rchomepage.com/softw..._imperial.html I found I can run about a 5x4 prop and get about 150km/h outta this thing..not the 200kph I was looking to break but it should be still pretty darn quick |
08-30-2016 10:28 PM | |
twistedge |
Re: Can I use this motor??..with what prop?? I'd recommend that you start playing with tools like http://www.ecalc.ch/ It will help to show that putting an 8x6 on that motor at 3595KV is going to draw north of 150 Amps. (It would be a race to see if the motor burned before the ESC). Smallish, high KV motors like that are typically geared (for helis, cars, etc..) If you have other motors, put them through the Calc.. try to find the highest pitch that stays with motor/esc specs. If you're looking to buy a motor.. I like to start with weight. May as well start with something that balances well in your setup... then start plugging in specs. It's a bit of trial and error if your plane doesn't have a recommended setup. |
08-30-2016 09:17 PM | |
gixerfien |
Re: Can I use this motor??..with what prop?? anybody? |
This thread has more than 10 replies. Click here to review the whole thread. |