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Example: Killer Bee

The extended-wing 48'' Lazy Bee makes an unusual conversion to twin motors. Instead of using a single 100-200 watt motor, try using two geared 100 watt motors (such as the Master Airscrew 05 geared 05 motors). If using a speed control, wire the motors in series to 10-12 nicads (use smaller nicads if you're concerned about weight, or if you want peppy but short flights). If you just want on-off control and are on a battery-budget, then you might consider wiring the motors in parallel to 6 SubC nicads. See the last newsletter for a refresher on ``series'' and ``parallel''.



Craig Kulesa
Fri Dec 4 18:35:52 MST 1998