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From: mages@trane.UUCP (Mikey Mages)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: NICADs
Message-ID: <238@trane.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 12:32:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: trane.238
Posted: Thu Aug 27 12:32:52 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Aug-87 12:31:38 EDT
References: <8708040222.AA14785@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <646@gec-mi-at.co.uk> <1619@sol.ARPA>
Organization: Aurora Systems San Francisco, California
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Summary: Keeping the RC glider in the air.

In article <1619@sol.ARPA>, ray@cs.rochester.edu (Ray Frank) writes:
> 
> By the way, I fly slope gliders and if my batteries held out I could
> keep one up quite easily the entire day so you can see it is important to
> monitor the nicads 


Just a thought....you might try putting a current or voltage comparator
on board the glider that senses your nicads. Combined with a transmitter
and a receiver on you radio control unit you could trigger an LED or
audio indicator when its time to bring the plane in for recharge.

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