Flight Power

[sailr]

I don't know about you but I remember r/c escapements and tube type receivers, and tether boats. Now THAT's old!

I was tinking the same thing,,,,we must be to old!

[domwilson]

I remember when you had to use a telegraph to get your boat to do anything..

[properchopper]

"While there were nastier meanings in previous years, ....."

FTW patches on certain " motorcycle enthusiasts" vests certainly had and still have the "nastier" connotation. The patch was first promoted in the sixties by a former neighbor of mine, one Mr. Robert Lipkin, AKA "Bob Bitchin" from Hermosa Beach, Ca.

[Ub Hauled]

... and tether boats. Now THAT's old!

they still use tether boats, there is a video going around of a guy that ran 120mph (or something like that) on tethers and there is another one that went almost as fast on a STEAM BOAT!!!! Now that's impressive.

[Bill-SOCAL]

Steve, I have dealt with Pat in many occasions, he's very nice guy, I am not
trying to put down his work, I am just saying that I have had problems with a couple of packs...

I'm curious, did you discuss these issues with Pat? What was the problem?

[Fluid]

I remember when you had to use a telegraph to get your boat to do anything..

No kidding at all. My first R/C boat used a single channel Controlaire radio, ca 1962. The transmitter had two buttons on it, a sliding on/off switch, and a single push button. Each time you pushed that button a signal was sent - for as long as you held the button down.

The receiver was attached to a Boat-O-Matic (yes, really!) servo, and it alternated between full-left rudder and full-right rudder. If you had just turned right and wanted to turn right again, you had to push the button twice! To change speed you blipped the button quickly and sequentially went from full forward to off to full reverse. Fortunately the boat - a 33" Dumas PT-109 with 6-volt lead acid battery - only went about 2 mph so swamping it wasn't an issue.

See - you really did telegraph your commands to the boat!




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[domwilson]

No kidding at all. My first R/C boat used a single channel Controlaire radio, ca 1962. The transmitter had two buttons on it, a sliding on/off switch, and a single push button. Each time you pushed that button a signal was sent - for as long as you held the button down.

The receiver was attached to a Boat-O-Matic (yes, really!) servo, and it alternated between full-left rudder and full-right rudder. If you had just turned right and wanted to turn right again, you had to push the button twice! To change speed you blipped the button quickly and sequentially went from full forward to off to full reverse. Fortunately the boat - a 33" Dumas PT-109 with 6-volt lead acid battery - only went about 2 mph so swamping it wasn't an issue.

See - you really did telegraph your commands to the boat!




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That's funny!!!
I had "remote controlled" cars that had a wire attached from the controller to the car that operated the same way.

[Bill-SOCAL]

Well my first boat did not even have a radio in it

You just started it up, threw it out into the lake and let it run around in circles. Oddly my driving today does not look much different!!

[sailr]

I had the same radio! Worked sorta, kinda. Never could totally rely on it to do as advertised. We old codgers went through a lot of pain and suffering in the early days. The radios today are cheaper and ultra reliable. The cost of radio control modeling in many ways is cheaper than it was back then. I remember when a Kraft 4 channel proportional radio (one of the first fully proportionals) cost $800! I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when I bought a used one for $400 around 1967 or so! That was a lot of moolah back then!

Today, a far superior 4 channel all digital computer radio costs under $150 brand new (or less).

No kidding at all. My first R/C boat used a single channel Controlaire radio, ca 1962. The transmitter had two buttons on it, a sliding on/off switch, and a single push button. Each time you pushed that button a signal was sent - for as long as you held the button down.

The receiver was attached to a Boat-O-Matic (yes, really!) servo, and it alternated between full-left rudder and full-right rudder. If you had just turned right and wanted to turn right again, you had to push the button twice! To change speed you blipped the button quickly and sequentially went from full forward to off to full reverse. Fortunately the boat - a 33" Dumas PT-109 with 6-volt lead acid battery - only went about 2 mph so swamping it wasn't an issue.

See - you really did telegraph your commands to the boat!




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[sailr]

Dang! We're all showing our age on here! Good thing this forum isn't all women. We'd never know the truth!

[lincpimp]

Oh so true sailr!!!!!

I have only done r/c for a few years now, maybe 3 or 4. But I can definitely see how the technology has improved and the prices have come down, just by watching lipo and brushless products....

[crabstick]

I hate to sound stupid, but what does FTW mean?

FTW in this context means "For the Win!!!"

[domwilson]

Dang! We're all showing our age on here! Good thing this forum isn't all women. We'd never know the truth!

We sure are. Only us older folks use the word "Dang."
Using the word that "Dang" replaces usually got you smacked in the head.
That was before the Dr. Spock era.

[nate]

I have been running 4S EON 4400/28C MarinePower packs for about 6 months in my P Sport Hydro and they perform great. This is a 150-amp setup and it demands a lot from the packs. Are the EONs any better than the EVO 30C packs? Can't say that they are any better, but they certainly aren't any worse.



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Agreed!! My 4s packs and my 5s Flight power lipos have been great running cells no problems.. Id buy them again!

[Meniscus]

I have had a lot of luck with these batteries as well. They seem to hold up well, even after going through many, many cycles. I've only had one be an issue for me, and that was due to too much current draw.