I'm scratch-building my very first FT design, which is also my very first fixed wing model, an FT Tiny Trainer. Because I'm scratch building, I've cobbled together a sort of "power pack" out of what I had laying around and a couple cheap bits from Amazon. I've just realized that the motor I have (a Samguk Wu-series 2206 size 2400kv) is a clockwise motor (i.e. the propeller nut threads are "normal" thread direction. Having looked around, I believe the official FT setup is for a CCW motor, and the little power pack foam board piece is angled a bit to one side to compensate for that.
I believe I have two options: first, I can print out the template backwards, and construct my power pack angled in the opposite direction. I'll use my motor in a CW configuration and a CW propeller, and my propeller nut will (probably) never come loose. Alternatively, I can run my motor in a CCW configuration, and hope my propeller nut never comes loose.
I've no experience with this, so I'm wondering, if I go with the flow here and run my motor backwards to match the "normal" FT setup, how likely is it that my propeller comes loose about 10 seconds into my first flight?
Thanks for any insight.
I believe I have two options: first, I can print out the template backwards, and construct my power pack angled in the opposite direction. I'll use my motor in a CW configuration and a CW propeller, and my propeller nut will (probably) never come loose. Alternatively, I can run my motor in a CCW configuration, and hope my propeller nut never comes loose.
I've no experience with this, so I'm wondering, if I go with the flow here and run my motor backwards to match the "normal" FT setup, how likely is it that my propeller comes loose about 10 seconds into my first flight?
Thanks for any insight.