? about the pico board and lipo battery's

[Air Cav]

hi everyone, before i go on i hope im not diging up old posts here but i need help.......

im in a bit of a dilemma here i need to know if i can use a 3-cell 800mAh Li-Po battery pack with my piccolo fun and not fry it out, i do have a 310T motor on it and pico board is the pico plus with heading hold. please any and all advise welcome

Thank you AC

[Vince]

The tail motors typically live a short life on 3 cells. The main motor will have reduced lifespan, but it is the tail that will go quickly. I went separates with my Piccolo, and used a high frequency tail ESC. This protected the tiny brushes on the tail motor. But this also requires a separate receiver, a head hold gyro and an ESC for the main motor. Not the cheapest setup, but one that gave me pretty good flights.

[Air Cav]

thank you vince much appreciated and good flight times are what i want.......

AC

[Air Cav]

hey you'll never believe this i didnt go with a lipo setup after all, i found a 8 cell 9.6 volt 650 mAh NI-MH. And boy does it get great flight times with no motor problems (heating up). the flight times are easily 7 minutes plus estimated deffinately more than what i had. will have to get more flights in to get a hard number on my flight times....... will report back

flight times were less than 4 - 5 minutes on old batteries

AC

[Vince]

Great! That will help a lot with practice time!

[rocknbil]

Air Cav - you take things too seriously, some of the threads you dug up where over a year old. :D The folks who originally posted them had probably forgotten all about helis and moved on to something really exciting like Bingo or 500 piece puzzles. It was just a "to let ya know . . . "

[Air Cav]

no problem rocknbil..... just here to improve my flying.

AC

[Air Cav]

hey Vince long time no see...my flight times are about the same. but as of now heli is down till i get some "replacement heads" it wont stay on long enough for any length of time. a new head should increase my flight time easy.... gonna order some soon !

AC

[Air Cav]

will be flying real soon got a replacement head for my heli and going to test my flight times to see if it improves will post differences soon
AC

[Vince]

Keep at it! It is a ton of fun.

[Air Cav]

Hey for those interested i have been getting great flight times, now it seems to be longer with my improved flying. Love to hover my piccolo its so smooth and effortless anymore i have been flying pretty much every day for a while now. Soon ill get to my Voyager-E this summer........AC