Electric Flight a clearer understanding

With the reduction in sites due to noise issues electric flight is becoming more and more established.  Electric flight offers other benefits over noise in that it is clean and environmentally friendly and requires less field equipment to support continuous flying.

To help those that wish to move into electric flight the tabs above may help. For a number of modellers electric flight is a black art that induces a mental block when the word is mentioned. When talking electrics the glazed look is very common and unfortunate as the basics are simple and easy to understand.

The above tabs direct you to separate elements of electric flight and hopefully help explain some of the issues and concerns.  These small elements are by no means conclusive and only provide simple explanations.  The web is littered with articles that are far more detailed if you wish to dig deeper.

 

 

Introduction
Selection of Components
When it comes to selecting the right battery, speed controller (ESC) and motor combination it is far more critical compared to choosing the equivalent sized IC motor. There are a number of factors to be taken into account when purchasing items to ensure the components are correctly matched to avoid any damage or reduction in performance during use.
It is important to determine which Propeller, Motor, Controller and Battery pack are required to fly your particular aircraft. The component parts as mentioned earlier are described in further detail by selecting the navigation tabs above.

One important point to remember however, if you know the current drawn by the motor, multiply by 1.5 when selecting the Controller and Battery (Safety first).  Conversely if you know the Controller / Battery rating divide by 1.5 when selecting the Motor.