Install Electric Motors on RC Airplanes
For sheltered, enjoyable flights, you require to install the electric Engine in your RC aeroplane equitable. Mounting the Engine securely ensures that the plane Testament drive as expected, flying at commensurate and at a consistent velocity, without sudden plunges. Most motors come with mounts specially built for brisk installation. Those mounts include the Correct angles already allot, so that all you commitment to conclude is screw the mount and Engine in district and connect the wires. In bright-eyed under an period your engine can be in dwelling and your plane ready for flight.
Instructions
Whether your plane uses a mounting stick placed ended the entity of your aeroplane, aim the mount along the stick locations and screw the bolts directly into the stick.3. Wrinkle up the engine mount with the anchor bolts and screw it into abode.4.
1. Put the engine mount for your Engine against the firewall (the firewall is a lot of balsa planking that protects your aeroplane from the heat and vibration generated by the running Engine) located at the nose of your aeroplane and stop the screw holes onto the firewall using a pencil.2. Screw the anchor bolts that Testament clinch your engine mount in apartment into the firewall, using the striking holes so that bolt holes are Apartment lodgings with the surface of your firewall.
Attach the electric Engine to the engine mount and pull the Engine cables into the plane cavity (plane with a fuselage), or along the thing of the plane (for a foam-bodied plane) to where the electric speed controller has been mounted.
5. Mount the battery pack on the plane, placing it either into the cavity of the plane or on the side. Secure the battery pack in accommodation using plastic ties.
6. Accommodation heat-shrink tubing onto the three engine wires, pulling them over the wire connectors onto the wire itself. Flight the three wires to the electric speed controller and connect the wires from the Engine to those on the controller, leaving the connectors uncovered.
7. Connect the aeroplane battery pack wires to the electric speed controller.
8. Berth the propeller on the Engine and secure it in place by tightening the propeller nut. Holding the airplane steady, apply a slight throttle to the airplane, using the remote control, to test the motor connector. Wires are properly connected if the prop turns clockwise (clockwise as you look down the line of the airplane from the tail to the propeller). If it turns counterclockwise instead, disconnect any two of the motor wires connected to the electric speed controller and reconnect them, switching their connection points so that each wire goes to the wire where the other was formerly connected.
9. Move the shrink tubing over the wire connections and apply heat using a hairdryer to shrink the rubber to a tighter fit. Shrinking the rubber protects the connection from vibration and damage from dust or moisture.
