All Ceramic Bearings for a 450 Sized Electric Helicopter
A while back when I replaced my eFlite Power 90 brushless motor bearings with some ceramic ball bearings from Boca. Shortly after BocaBearings friended me on YouTube and I took the opportunity to ask them a few questions about R/C helicopter bearings. When I asked what it would cost to replace the bearings with ceramic […]
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Tags: 450, ace, Ball Bearings, BocaBearings, Ceramic, Helicopter, mini-titan, Radio Control, Thunder Tiger
Very Large Home Made Lithium Polymer Battery Pack
I was sent this video from Chris Luxembourg called BATTERY OR WELDING MACHINE. (He has since closed his youtube account and the videos are no longer available!) He built this monster Li-Poly pack for his Lowracer project, a hybrid/electric super-efficient bicycle. Bicycle may not be the appropriate name for the thing. Looking at some of […]
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Home Made High Voltage Rectifier Using Series Strings of Diodes
I needed some high voltage diodes for a project I am working on. Below is information on how to build a few different types and maybe go a bit overboard. Recently I have been working on rebuilding my energy storage capacitor discharge setup and needed a full wave rectifier bridge for my neon sign transformers. […]
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Tags: diode, high voltage, HV, Neon Sign Transformer, rectifier
Ground and Aerial Videos from the Ace Mini-Titan 450
I attached my ‘pack of bubblegum’ sized spy cam to my Thunder Tiger Mini-Titan e325 today and shot some great video of Ollie’s Align Trex 450 in flight and also shot some in-flight videos as well. Ollie shot some HD ground video of my Mini Titan e325 using my Sony HD Camcorder while the spy […]
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Tags: ace, Aerial, camera, FPV, Helicopter, mini-titan, rc, Video
Troubleshooting Adsense Impressions Normal but Click Through Rate is Zero
One of my hobbies is the SEO of my personal web sites. Recently my Adsense Click Through Rate dropped to zero for over a week and I had to do some investigating to find out what was going on. I do SEO not so much for profit purposes as it is a personal interest in […]
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