Yankee2003
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A couple more pictures of the fuselage coming together.
Here is another situation that needs to be addressed in the motor fitting stage. The ESC is too short to reach the battery area in front of the wing.
Ideally you check this before you finish mounting your motor. If it comes up short like this, the best thing would be to extend the wires that run from the esc to the motor prior to installation.
That is in the rear view mirror for me. I am left with two, much less appealing solutions.
1) An extension to the battery from the esc. Flite Test does this on their twins, but I had heard that extending the battery leads can damage the esc. The Flite Test battery extensions can be seen in this build picture of my Boomin Flerken.
So maybe brushless escs have progressed to the point where this is okay. I don’t know about that.
Or the second and worse option.
2) Open up, cut up, or rebuild the enclosed fuselage section and extend the wires to the motor from the esc.
A heads-up for you. Don’t get caught out like I did. It is my first EDF scratch build so I use it as a learning experience.
Here is another situation that needs to be addressed in the motor fitting stage. The ESC is too short to reach the battery area in front of the wing.
Ideally you check this before you finish mounting your motor. If it comes up short like this, the best thing would be to extend the wires that run from the esc to the motor prior to installation.
That is in the rear view mirror for me. I am left with two, much less appealing solutions.
1) An extension to the battery from the esc. Flite Test does this on their twins, but I had heard that extending the battery leads can damage the esc. The Flite Test battery extensions can be seen in this build picture of my Boomin Flerken.
So maybe brushless escs have progressed to the point where this is okay. I don’t know about that.
Or the second and worse option.
2) Open up, cut up, or rebuild the enclosed fuselage section and extend the wires to the motor from the esc.
A heads-up for you. Don’t get caught out like I did. It is my first EDF scratch build so I use it as a learning experience.