HMS RODNEY 1/96th Build

That went completely over my head Jonathan. So i will definitely leave it to the professional LOL!! Martin555.

3 hours ago by 🇬🇧 Martin555 ( Vice Admiral)

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Simple Smoke Generator

Tim, I haven't deliberately tested to destruction, but I have abused the heating coil during development. On the whole, I have tried to keep the coil operating conditions as close to the normal use as an e-cig, i.e. wick wet with smoke fluid and an air flow over the wick/coil. To reduce the risk of the wick running dry, I expanded the smoker fluid storage by adding a reservoir tank to the original e-cig reservoir. The new tank is made from acrylic tube I had in my 'useful bits' box. It is important that the reservoir is airtight, otherwise the wick floods. The filler hole is closed off with a caphead screw and o-ring. JBkiwi has recently demonstrated a refillable reservoir with a pump to keep it topped up. I'm sure that without fluid, the coil will heat up more, and would, if it gets hot enough burn out. That will depend on how much current is being passed through it. I have let some of mine run dry without failure. The e-cig housing does get warm, but not too hot to handle. I assume this is also the case when used for it's original intended purpose. So not so hot that it would cause a fire, unless the current is set too high, in which case the coil would likely burn out quickly removing any risk of fire. There are different coils available, with different electrical characteristics. The ones I am using draw a current of around 1A on 3V. I make sure that any electronic drivers I am using have a current rating way in excess of that, so haven't had any failures due to the coil running dry or burning out. For the gunfire simulation I do run the coil continuously with no air flow for much of the time. That way there is plenty of smoke to blow out of the e-cig when the air pump is switched on. I haven't had any coil failures with this. The only coil I have destroyed occurred when I accidentally applied a fully charged 2S LiPo direct to a coil. It vapourised within milliseconds! Graham93

8 hours ago by 🇬🇧 Graham93 ( Warrant Officer)

RC & Electrics

Flysky TH9X with OpenTX and AFHDS-2A

Thanks for your answer, yes, I was binding the devices several times, and I agree with you, just changing the module everything should work, but the reality is that the new combination didn’t work, even testing a lot of different communications setups in the transmitter, may be the old operating system is able to handle that but not the open tx, but as far as I know somebody has this combination working

9 hours ago by 🇪🇸 Escrich ( Master Seaman)

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Fittings for Aerokits RAF tender

A P.S. to pmdent, Peter, I too drank Blackthorn cider in the Shipwrights. Nerys

18 hours ago by 🇬🇧 Nerys ( Commander)

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Hi Richard, Thanks for the advise. I might try a test piece first. Regards Sid

1 day ago by 🇦🇺 sidley70 ( Master Seaman)

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