[ronm]

Check it out!!

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/Rob_...1390762/tm.htm

Ronm

[Frank Klenk]

Wow! Sure is a sweet looking plane. Electrics have come a long way in a few short years haven't they? The graphics on his plane are awesome too!

[AJCoholic]

I bet he has more tied up in batteries than you can buy a nice DA100 for!

Electrics are pretty neat, and have come a long way but man, the top end stuff is SO expensive....

I was reading a mag, they were talking about Jason Shulman's electric pattern plane that he competed with at the last world champs in Poland with. They said he had something the equivalent to $1000 C in his plane for batteries. Thats a lot of gasoline....

[Guest]

Originally Posted by AJCoholic

I bet he has more tied up in batteries than you can buy a nice DA100 for!

Electrics are pretty neat, and have come a long way but man, the top end stuff is SO expensive....

I was reading a mag, they were talking about Jason Shulman's electric pattern plane that he competed with at the last world champs in Poland with. They said he had something the equivalent to $1000 C in his plane for batteries. Thats a lot of gasoline....

Actually its not a lot of fuel, consider going through 60-70 gallons (glow) in a summer the batteries dont look all bad. At the moment nobody really knows if you can get one season, two seasons or what out of the packs, that is likely what will decide if the masses convert or not. Apparently I have heard that the packs Jason was using (42V 6000 mah) have came down in price a lot since the worlds already so maybe by next summer they will be cheaper yet.

What Jason did is going to absolutely revolutionize pattern, and made all of us running the latest two and four strokes look like the most underpowered planes on the planet. I suspect that at the next WC you will see no less than 25% of the planes being electric, and the ones in 2007 I bet are easily 70% electric its just that much better. For now though I will sit and wait and let other doing the experimenting, I have another Enigma sitting on the shelf waiting to be built that is on hold until the end of summer when I decide if I will jump on the electric wagon

There are so many benefits with essentially no drawbacks of electrics that its going to be hard not to go that route in the future as prices drop. They really need to be seen on these larger planes.

YS better start a new marketing plan

[AJCoholic]

Considering that few (except the smaller ones guys mainly use in basic) IMAC planes are glow (not too many 100 to 150cc class glow engines) that $1000 can buy a LOT of good old gasoline...

Electrics no doubt will get more prominent as the technology progresses and the price (hopefully) settles down.

[50%300SFlyer]

http://kelvin.rchomepage.com/Extra.wmv

Pretty darn impressive!!

[Guest]

I think you will see people ignore the cost of the batteries over fuel because the gains are so significant.

The difference in performance has to be seen to be believed, never in my life have I seen a pattern model with so much power as what Jason had, and he did it with a 45 minute flight time per charge on a fairly heavy model (by todays standards). When he needed more power to deal with wind, he just dialed up the ESC and voila 20% more juice. He basically had everything the best YS's has plus bucket load more that we dont have The whole 3 minute starting rule was sort of a joke when it was his turn, he just carried his plane out and hit the throttle

I doubt your average Sunday joe will bother with it, but in competitive circles it wont be long before the guys running IC engines are the odd ones

[AJCoholic]

So when you sell off your YS's cheap you let me know please....

[Guest]

I will sell all of them off next fall, either because I am electric or just to get a bunch of the new 160DZ's

[ronm]

In the electric Extra;

Hacker C50-14XL - roughly $380 I think each. (2)
Jeti 77-3p speed control - $200 each (2)
TP 5s4p battery - $375 (4 required)
Prince 30x18 prop - $270

(Sorry, US dollars)

Ronm