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Skin Effect – Why Many Fine Strands Are Better

Skin Effect Explained. Why many fine strands (the finer the better) are better than fewer (or one) strand(s). Hobby wire (good hobby wire) is more costly than your garden variety speaker and automotive wire because of it’s higher strand count and surface area....

Chance To Fly At Huffman Prairie Aero Carnival

Please Tweet, Post or do whatever you can to help me the the news out to pilots that might want to fly their early aviation models at the Wright Aero Carnival at Huffman Prarie. I am working with the National Parks to bring demonstration flying of early aircraft to...

Wire Caculator AWG to Curcular Mils

A calculator published by the Mogami company. It is helpful to understand wire size a little better. For example, a solid core 22 gauge wire has a different overall diameter if it’s 16 strand or 32 strand or 198 strand. Don’t get fooled into thinking AWG...

Checking A123 RX Packs For Recharge Point

A123 RX Packs can be tricky to deturming how much is left in the pack by checking voltage alone. Variations in connectors and length of wire can have a big impact on actual volt readings when loaded. Using an RRC1000 digital voltmeter with load capability of 0.0A,...