Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 10:34 am GMT -6 Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 10:34 am GMT -6Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 10:34 am GMT -6
You heard that right. Brushless outrunner motor, digital servos, Spektrum-compatible receiver, battery, speed control, and propeller.
I put together this micro flight pack for a possible Micro Pickerel model airplane design. The combined total weight is about 18.4 grams and I paid about $45 for all of it. As you can see in the video, the servos and motor work just great. The prices listed below have been rounded.
$1 Turnigy nano-tech 160mah 1S 25~40C Lipo Pack
$10 Turnigy 5A 1S Brushless ESC
$15 HobbyKing AP03 4200kv Brushless Micro Motor
$2 GWS EP Propellers (DD-4025, 6 props)
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Impressive
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Thanks. Not too long ago, this is what you had to pay just for the receiver.
I still have one of the first indoor RC flight packs sold in the US, around 1997 by Clancy Aviation. The battery alone – 6 50mA NiCad Cells, soldered together by me, weighs 28gm. It was good for 10 minute flights in my ‘Stubenfliege’.
Yeah, and I’ll bet you paid a hell of a lot more than $45 for it!
Just a little more
Oddly enough, and I wish I’d kept one, the propellor was pretty pricey, but it was a superb ultra-thin CF number that fitted precisely to the propshaft, needing a single small hex key to secure it. Of course it would, it was all German made.
China hadn’t been invented back then!
More like China had not been discovered yet…