{"id":9072,"date":"2005-01-01T22:56:55","date_gmt":"2005-01-02T06:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=9072"},"modified":"2021-10-16T23:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T06:00:02","slug":"lees-r-c-shopping-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/01\/lees-r-c-shopping-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee’s R\/C Shopping Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Originally from my flying<\/a> website<\/a> from 2005 or so. The original publish date is lost)<\/p>\n

In 2001, I was part of\u00a0 a purchase of an Ikarus Bleriot III and related kit from\u00a0Hobby-Lobby<\/a>. The kit, which was put together by Hobby Lobby, contained\u00a0a battery pack in a bad configuration<\/b>\u00a0(the batteries were in a squarish block but they should have been all in a row). We dealt with it, but it sucked.<\/p>\n

I received a Zagi 400x and radio set from\u00a0Atlanta Hobby<\/a>\u00a0in 2002. The motor had it’s wires attached incorrectly from the Zagi factory. Cliff from Atlanta Hobby was -very-\u00a0quick and friendly when\u00a0<\/b>resolving the problem.<\/p>\n

In May 2003 I bought an Astro 110D charger from\u00a0Atlanta Hobby<\/a>. It was performing a little strangely so I wrote to Cliff. He\u00a0very quickly\u00a0<\/b>spoke with the manufacturer and got back to me with an answer to my question.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Atlanta Hobby<\/a>\u00a0website and all my communications there have been very\u00a0personable<\/b>. :-)<\/p>\n

I’ve been into\u00a0Kenvil Hobbies<\/b>\u00a0a few times and bought a couple things. The owner is\u00a0nice<\/b>, he stocks a wide array of products, and although he’s not into flying himself (and doesn’t know that merchandise completely), he’s\u00a0good<\/b>\u00a0in my book. My local hobby shop! :-)<\/p>\n

I bought a set of 4 4amp\/hr 6 volt batteries for my UPS from\u00a0Battery Mart<\/a>\u00a0in May 2003.\u00a0 They were cheap, shipping was very reasonable and the batteries are good.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been thinking about getting a lead-acid battery electronic desulfater. It sounded a bit like voodoo or fodder for a late-night infomercial so I asked around for a review. I got back this very positive response from one person about the\u00a0Powerpulse<\/a>. (he asked that I edit out his name and company)<\/p>\n

Hi,Lee,<\/p>\n

Several years ago I persuaded the company to donate a set of the units to the Science Museum of [removed] for use in our electric car, but they never got installed. A couple of years later, the car’s new batteries sat unused and uncharged for about a year, and got pretty badly sulfated. We then installed the PowerPulse units and charged the batteries and checked them for capacity — the car’s range was about 10 miles. A week later the batteries would support a range of about 30 miles, and a couple of weeks after that they seemed to be back to full capacity. So I think the units work. It does seem like hocus-pocus to some folks, but I believe the theory of their function is logical.<\/p>\n

Hope that helps.<\/p>\n

Regards, Bob [removed], Science Museum of [removed]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Originally from my flying website from 2005 or so. The original publish date is lost) In 2001, I was part of\u00a0 a purchase of an Ikarus Bleriot III and related kit from\u00a0Hobby-Lobby. The kit, which was put together by Hobby Lobby, contained\u00a0a battery pack in a bad configuration\u00a0(the batteries were in a squarish block but […]<\/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-9072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072","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=9072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9073,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions\/9073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}