Hi, my question is, would the temperature of 95=BA F cause my 3S, 1500MaH battery to give two third the normal flight time of about 18minutes for a fully charged battery?My flights were normal in that sometimes fast, sometimes slow and easy.Wan

Hi, my question is, would the temperature of 95º F cause my 3S, 1500MaH battery to give two third the normal flight time of about 18minutes for a fully charged battery?My flights were normal in that sometimes fast, sometimes slow and easy.WanI am sure that ambient temperature changes have an effect, Wan, but I'm rusty on the exact effects.As temperature rises, cell impedance drops. It would not surprise me if capacity diminished along with the falling impedance.Ed Cregger

Hot weather gives shorter flight times?

Jun 28, 2005 22 Replies

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Phillip Windell 21 years ago

Yes. They are also the weakest part of the model. It is also the Wings that are the easiest to cause distortion when covering a new model if you get too carried away with the Heat-gun and "over shrink" the covering. So I think it was the combination of the wood becoming brittle and the contraction of the covering crushing the wing. I imagine the engine vibration "irritated" the situation too.

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The Natural Philosopher 21 years ago

Wings can be very airtight actually.

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Phillip Windell 21 years ago

Not that airtight, not enough to crate so much vaccume to crush the wing simply by a temperature drop. Especially if there are Servo Pockets in them and passages for control rods, etc, and other hardware that makes penetrations.

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