WoW! Modified my starter ZOOM!!!!!!!!

[John Cook]

I have an older plank starter, some Hi-Tork brand or something I got from my dad back in the 80's. Would start a 40 sized plane fine, but anything larger and it would bog and you would have to bump start it.

My old gel battery in my field box was pretty lazy too, so I decided to try an experiment. I rigged a deans connector on the starter cord and tried a 2200mah 11.1v lipo. About the same as the 12v gel battery, maybe a bit better, but wouldn't turn my buddies raptor 60 with his OS70 motor w/out the bump start, which I really don't like to do. So, I took a series deans connector and put on 2 of the 2200mah 3s1P 20c packs. Stater really spins, and I figured if I fried my starter WHO CARES, it was working well, but basically outdated . So with 2 batteries, put it on my buddies raptor and POW, thing fired straight off in less than a second or so. He was amazed. He has a very high dollar starter that can't even spin his motor w/out hooking it straight to his car batttery. My modded starter just eased through the day of flying starting both his Raptor and my TREX600 all day, probably 20 starts between us, until my dumb thumb incident.

His parting comment about the starter was "I'm doing that to mine"

So now I'm considering ditching my heavy field box, mounting my fuel pump on my nitro bottle somehow, and using a single lipo for that. Shorten the cord for my starter and mount the lipos to my starter, and just carrying those around. Save alot of weight and probably a trip back to the car .

Just thought that some might find this useful. Instead of throwing out that older starter, if you have spare lipos around you might want to try this

John

[mccrind]

Just did that as well. Cheep 4 cell 2200 on ancient starter with a deans and velcro, same as my planes. Spins my hyper 50 really fast. I'm sure the 3 cell would work just fine but I had the 4 so why not!!

[John Cook]

eheh
Yeah I'm sure 4 cells would work, but I didn't have 4 cell packs only 2-3cell packs in series
ZOOM ZOOM!

[wcc963]

my buddy has a dynatron powered by a 6S 4900(yes a t-rex 600E battery). but hes also having to turn over 150cc engines. so it has to be powerful. im sure it could turn over the world.

[wacojoe]

Sounds like a great idea. I have been using a Craftsman drill to start my Trex-600N. Works well all day. I know what you mean on ditching the field box. I have a small fishing tackle box with tools and extra glo plugs etc. I have a gallon gas can that i poor the nitro fuel in and zipped tied my fuel pump to the handle. I use a 3S1P 1500 pack to power the fuel pump. Man that thing fills the tank in about 3.5 secs.

[R1R 7humbs]

I just upgraded my starter as well. I skipped the lipos because of $$ and went wth the torquemaster lead calcium (SLA) batteries ($20 each). I have 2 wired in series for 24V @ 7000mAh (hooked up to a Dynatron).

Cranking the engine over is a joke, the rpm is so high it sounds like it's ready for take off before I hit the ignite button ! (maybe that's a bad thing but I'll take it over not turning it over).

[John Cook]

update! My buddy did this to his and it's equally impressive. I'm happy though b/c my 20yr old starter(give or take) that I got from my dad, seems as good as his $100 starter from a couple years ago . They both rock, but heck why spend the extra $ on a new starter.

Also, I put in a lipo in place of my Gel battery in my field box. Made a huge difference in weight, and I'm sure will last as long or longer
woot I love lipos eheh!

[flyfishsick]

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