dave cut

Just had an escale artf p-47 and was really glad I found this forum to tell me how to get the best out of it! Other than the fact that its made of eps which is unbelieveably fragile and seems to get marked just by holding it I'm really impressed. It certainly looks the part and fly's much better than I expected a foamy to fly (other than a radian glider, my other foamies are indoor stuff). After reading these posts, I have replaced the retract servo( which didnt last very long) with a hitec hs82mg with metal gears and Ive ordered a turnigy servo slower. I was amazed after looking at the real Hun hunter on you tube just how close to scale the model is. While waiting for the servo slower to arrive, I found a cheapo (£3 off ebay)lipo low cell indicator (green lights=ok, flashing red lights=low voltage, BUZZERS=LAND QUICK!!!!)in the shed and after searching for places in the P47 finally decided to put it in the cockpit. As you will see from the pics I had to cut a bit of the foam out, but I'm pleased with the result, easy to see and adds a bit of interest to the cockpit detail. By the way, if anyone knows for definate what model the 25A esc is so that I can check the programming I would be grateful. All it has on it is a sticker saying 'escale 24A ESC'.! ps The pilot is a remodelled X-fighter pilot stolen from from my grandson!

A different way to put lights on your Radian without having to worry about interfering with the glider in any way or soldering etc... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8r-JnzVrnw   Novel eh...

Hi Bruce At last I have had a reply from scorpion...apparently with scorpion esc's it is possible to 'Y' the 2 esc's into the throttle channel and the 2 bec circuits will combine and in my case give 2A instead of 1A. I am going to try that(but keep the scorpion email in case anything goes wrong as a result!!) I also suggested to scorpion it may be useful if they included that info with the product instructions as many people use multi motored models.   Anyway, thanks for your help   by the way try this http://wolfstone.halloweenhost.com/Motors/svoint_RCServos.html   or maybe type it into the explorer bar   it really is worth looking at for servo stuff.   Dave  

Bruce,   Just been looking at the electronic circuit side of the servo,s curtousy of www.wolfstone.halloweenhost.com  and they say that the signal pulse for the servo must derive from the same source as the servo motor source so it looks like its back to the drawing board. I think to be on the safe side I'm going to end up changing one of the ESC's to a bigger one that has a bec supply of 2A and dissabling the bec of the smaller one.   Dave

Thanks for the reply Richard. I never thought of keeping the 2 bec supplies separate. I can see that feeding the rx and a servo pluggged into it is fine but how do you ensure that the feeds to the other servos is separate bearing in mind that they  have to be plugged into the Rx.

I am using two 11A scorpion esc's on a model and each has a bec output of 1A. The 4 servos I am using will draw about 1.5A and so I need to know for definate if both bec's can be Y'd together and will safely give me a combined output of 2A. All I read on the forum is mixed opinions and even emailing scorpion in hong kong has resulted in no reply! I cant afford the extra weight of a separate battery pack and dont want to go down the single heavier esc route. Can anyone help me with this one?