Battery weights

by RCAdventures | November 5, 2013 | (0) Posted in Tips

Hello everyone! This is my first article! So I am going to show you a money saving tip...

instead of putting the weight in the plane, put it on the battery. In the pictures below is my Turnigy 2200 3S which I use for most of my planes, in my bixler, i have 5g in the nose, in my friends Piper cub, there is 20g, and in my durafly vampire, there is 20g. The way that this saves money, is that I balanced this out for all these planes so I only need to use small amounts of weight in the aircraft themselves!

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COMMENTS

Battershell on November 19, 2013
So.... I'm confused by your comment. So you save money by only putting a little weight in the plane? And ....... Instead put a lot of weight on all of your batteries? So you only have one battery or I am missing something here. I have 6 or 8 packs of 2200's myself. I would rather put the weight in the plane instead of making a hot spot on my pack that could fall off or just be in the way inside my plane. Usually batteries are a tight fit and I would rather put the weight right where it is at the farthest point forward or aft so I didn't have to use as much. Still confused here. Oh well.
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ErikDiaz on November 21, 2013
Yes I'm confused my self .can you elaborate on this?
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petedotnl on December 5, 2013
if you have to balance on your battery. then try a bigger battery (heavier) thus longer flight time.
look at your fitting maybe even cut some space, keep in mind the best benefit.(or a bigger battery or a counterweight to balance)
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Oscar Leeson on April 21, 2015
I also do not understand this! On my first tricopter I ran 3S 2200's and I wouldn't want extra weight on the battery! I see vaguely where you are coming from. Another thing, does a Durafly vampire not run on a 4S lipo? And so does a hobbyking cub? My dad has both (well, L-4 grasshopper, not L-3 cub) the cub for towing etc, and everyone I know who flies RC has owned a bixler at some point!

Oscar, RCExplorerUK
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