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the battle to get my ever increasing lipo collection charged and ready to fly is becoming a major mission. when you start with an msr its not too bad, great little charger, and quick, so no worries keeping the 15 1s turnigys charged, but once you start on blade 400, the blight of charging begins. you start with 2 or 3 lipos, but its soon not enough to satisfy the seemingly endless craving to fly.
i now have eight 2200 3s packs (which can fly the blade, the decathlon, and the 500 doubled up). to get these ready, takes 1.5 hours each with my two blade 400 chargers. thats 6 hours that you need to be around to swap and monitor. the next thing to consider is the wind. i cant fly it in the wind, so i grab flight time whenever the weather allows. could be early morning, midday, whenever (self employed means whenever you want and i have two sports fields within a minute of the house). this means the packs need to be ready to go all the time, not just for the weekends (and its always crap weather at the weekends anyway).
then you add a trex 500 to the mix, and another six 6s packs, and two more bantam chargers, one that has its 240v supply built in(50w) and one that needs a 12v supply(200w) (a car battery in this case as i dont have a power pack, which has its own car charger to keep that topped up) then its starting to become difficult to find time to do anything else other than plug and unplug plugs, batteries, chargers, and different balance boards.
as the packs and helis get more expensive the need to then record and monitor their individual performance becomes sensible, so i write down and record each charge for each 6s pack (i cant afford the to crash the 500 through lipo failiure) and so it goes on. oh, and two sets of tx packs that need 12 hours each.
compared to some of you guys i dont even have many helis/planes. i am now finding that all i seem to think about is getting the lipos ready to fly, when can i fly , what else needs adjusting before i can fly, understanding how to keep everything you have in good flying order and researching what you think you will want to be flying in the future. where does this all end
i now have eight 2200 3s packs (which can fly the blade, the decathlon, and the 500 doubled up). to get these ready, takes 1.5 hours each with my two blade 400 chargers. thats 6 hours that you need to be around to swap and monitor. the next thing to consider is the wind. i cant fly it in the wind, so i grab flight time whenever the weather allows. could be early morning, midday, whenever (self employed means whenever you want and i have two sports fields within a minute of the house). this means the packs need to be ready to go all the time, not just for the weekends (and its always crap weather at the weekends anyway).
then you add a trex 500 to the mix, and another six 6s packs, and two more bantam chargers, one that has its 240v supply built in(50w) and one that needs a 12v supply(200w) (a car battery in this case as i dont have a power pack, which has its own car charger to keep that topped up) then its starting to become difficult to find time to do anything else other than plug and unplug plugs, batteries, chargers, and different balance boards.
as the packs and helis get more expensive the need to then record and monitor their individual performance becomes sensible, so i write down and record each charge for each 6s pack (i cant afford the to crash the 500 through lipo failiure) and so it goes on. oh, and two sets of tx packs that need 12 hours each.
compared to some of you guys i dont even have many helis/planes. i am now finding that all i seem to think about is getting the lipos ready to fly, when can i fly , what else needs adjusting before i can fly, understanding how to keep everything you have in good flying order and researching what you think you will want to be flying in the future. where does this all end
), got 23 for the 450 and 8 for the 500, think i might have to see a doctor
+ 7 x Eddies finest EGS's
& JR DSX11 ,Phoenix and a fridge full of bottled water 
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