Help! Battery location

[cgresham37@yahoo.com]

Where does the battery for my Flitetest Piepentpol go? Under the mock motor...is a crowded space.

 

[FDS]

It attaches to the UNDERSIDE of the power pod, via sticky Velcro, like all the minis.

 

[cgresham37@yahoo.com]

It attaches to the UNDERSIDE of the power pod, via sticky Velcro, like all the minis.

Thanks...

 

[FDS]

Don’t forget to CG your plane and don’t work on the electronics with a prop on, ALWAYS remove the prop when working on the planes electrics.

 

[Merv]

I agree with @FDS, battery placement is critical to CG. A nose heavy plane fly’s poorly, a tail heavy plane flys once.

 

[Brett_N]

There are Round Circles on the plans for the CG.

My recommendation is and always has been to put a strip of velcro down the underside (or side) and velcro on the batteries so that you can adjust it at first to get close to that CG point. Then run a BBQ skewer through and use a Velcro / Rubber Band Combo.

Slightly nose heavy is better than neutral or any tail heavy. (Unless it's a 3D plane....)