Gee-Bee Electric

Sep 15, 2007 3 Replies
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I bought a Gee-Bee from Parkflyer.com. It came with a brushless outrunner motor (No name) designated only as "Bm 2408 - 21." It also came with an 18 amp. ESC and a 2 cell 7.4V Li-Po 1800 mAh battery. The designated prop is



10 X 4.7.

With that information can someone tell me what the current draw is for the motor (and how to calculate it, perhaps)?



Also, I want to purchase an additional battery. As I just received a CellPro 4S charger I would like to use a CellPro battery. The closest match they have which physically fits the plane is a LiPo 2S 1350 mAh. Will that battery suffice? Any way to guess how much shorter the flight time might be?



I am VERY NEW to the electric flyers, having only flown glow planes over the years.



Thanks,



Ray


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This is a very common cheap brushless motor made by Tower Pro. If you do a google search on it you'll find lots of information on it, but not much with that particular prop. Assuming you have the most common version, it'll pull about 13A.

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----- Original Message ----- From: "RayB" Newsgroups: rec.models.rc.air Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 9:46 PM Subject: Gee-Bee Electric

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Thank you, PCPhil for the reply and link. Unless I miss-read the information it appears that either battery will suffice and the provided prop should not overheat the motor.

There is so much "new" information for me to digest: my wife complains somewhat that I'm always "reading" at the computer! Thank goodness for the newsgroups, RC Universe, rcgroups.com. and Red S.

Ray

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It's a pretty woeful motor, and I found it actually was more efficient at lower current on a 3s pack. I think 3s and an 8x4 was about the best.

I'd try and keep it under 10A if possible. 3s 1100mAh is my stab in the not so dark.

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