{"id":1674,"date":"2004-06-15T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2004-06-15T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/15\/projeti-arrival\/"},"modified":"2004-06-15T12:00:04","modified_gmt":"2004-06-15T20:00:04","slug":"projeti-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/15\/projeti-arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"Projeti Arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Arrival<\/h3>\n<p>The Projeti arrived today with all it&#8217;s parts. That was fast :-)<\/p>\n<p>Notables:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The $80 Mega brushless motor is virtually indistinguishable visually from     the $10 brushed motor. Weird&#8230; cool&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The 2100 Mah 11.1 V lipoly battery is considerably smaller and lighter     than my 1700 Mah 9.6 V Zagi pack. I&#8217;m still worried that I&#8217;ll be drawing too     much juice from it, burning out this $80 battery prematurely. I&#8217;m especially     worried about the temperature constraints of the pack. The Nevada desert will     be 100 degrees during the day and the max recommended charging temperature of     the battery is&#8230;. 100 degrees. The max recommended discharge temp is 160&#8230;     only 60 degrees above ambient temp, and with the sun beating down on it. We&#8217;ll     see what happens. Maybe I won&#8217;t fly it during the day.<\/li>\n<li>The Projeti looks to be made from EPS foam. I was told that it was &#8220;a bit     stronger than EPS&#8221;. It would have been nice if it were EPP or a foam-composite     or something. But no, it&#8217;s just EPS. Of course I realized this issue before     purchasing, but I&#8217;m still worried about its resiliency compared to the Zagi.<\/li>\n<li>I wonder what 70 mph alkali dust storms do to r\/c equipment?<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m thinking of getting flexible lighting wire and creating the silhouette     of a hawk on the bottom of the plane, then covering the bottom with doculam     clear plastic sheeting. That could be cool.<\/li>\n<li>The Triton charger is 1\/2 the size of the Astroflight 110D charger. Tech.     Cool.<\/li>\n<li>If I can get the twin tails to fold down (or something), the whole     suitcase I&#8217;ll need to haul the plane and equipment will only be about 34&#8243; x     24&#8243; x 5&#8243;. Cool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Zagi News<\/h3>\n<p><strong>My second motor is on its way out<\/strong>. I lost another $1 prop to   overheating. I&#8217;m a bit surprised at that because this second motor is a 7.2V   motor&#8230; IE, it spins slower at WOT. I had figured that the first motor, a 6V   motor was burning itself out extra quick because I was pushing it waaay too   hard. And I was only pushing the 7.2V way to hard.<\/p>\n<p>The 2 <strong>NiMH 1100 battery packs<\/strong> are having some trouble. I pretty much   figured when I got them that I was drawing too much power from them. But I got a   whole year of flying out of them, so I&#8217;m not unhappy. I tried strapping both to   the plane and flying them in parallel. It worked reasonably well. The plane was   heavy like a dog but it flew fine enough. I was a bit surprised when I landed   the dual-pack arrangement and both batteries were very hot. Shouldn&#8217;t I have   been drawing 1\/2 the normal amperage? Well, as I said, the packs are on their   way out&#8230; But if they&#8217;re on their way out (loosing full power after only about   5 minutes), shouldn&#8217;t just 1 or 2 cells per pack be getting really hot? Eh.   Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>I ripped off a winglet Monday afternoon when I landed a little hard in some   tall grass. So I tried <strong>flying winglet-free<\/strong>. YOW, bad idea! When I went   into any kind of high-banked turn, the nose would turn toward the earth and I&#8217;d   lose altitude like it was going out of style. I tried doing a roll without   winglets and, YIPE! I had reasonably good form but midway through the roll, the   plane started fluttering down to the ground like a piece of paper, flipping   nose-over-tail and such. Just zooping about, it was hard to keep it flying   straight. Any sudden shift on the controls or in the wind and the plane wouldn&#8217;t   know which way was forward. Bleh! Conclusion: The Zagi 400X cannot fly without   winglets. I&#8217;m glad I did the experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrival The Projeti arrived today with all it&#8217;s parts. That was fast :-) Notables: The $80 Mega brushless motor is virtually indistinguishable visually from the $10 brushed motor. Weird&#8230; cool&#8230; The 2100 Mah 11.1 V lipoly battery is considerably smaller and lighter than my 1700 Mah 9.6 V Zagi pack. I&#8217;m still worried that I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}