Thank you for this clear and neutral video. I've been in the hobby for two years now. I've always flown electric foamboard scratch build. Because it's cheap when you crash, which I've done a lot. But I'm growing tired of flying 10 minutes on each battery and waiting 2 hours for the battery to charge up. And one thing they dont tell is that lipo batteries dont have a very long life span. After a couple of months they puff up and you have to buy new ones. This can get expensive. If they overheat, they puff up, if they're hit, they puff up on the best case scenario. Lipo are fragile. I just ordered an ap 0.15 hornet glow engine to see if ill prefer glow and im working on a coroplast trainer to put it on.
if your puffing batts your running the wrong prop or voltage or motor. i have had a thousand charges on a lipo. 2 hours to charge? you need a new charger. get more batteries also. i use cheap batts not the big name high priced batts.
As you concluded, horses for courses, so neither is "better" Personally I had enough of noisy, smelly, oily glow motors when I was younger and today enjoy the ease of use of quiet, clean electric power but I can see the attraction of glow and petrol engines for the right type of model and flying location.
Thank you for this clear and neutral video.
I've been in the hobby for two years now. I've always flown electric foamboard scratch build. Because it's cheap when you crash, which I've done a lot.
But I'm growing tired of flying 10 minutes on each battery and waiting 2 hours for the battery to charge up. And one thing they dont tell is that lipo batteries dont have a very long life span. After a couple of months they puff up and you have to buy new ones. This can get expensive.
If they overheat, they puff up, if they're hit, they puff up on the best case scenario.
Lipo are fragile.
I just ordered an ap 0.15 hornet glow engine to see if ill prefer glow and im working on a coroplast trainer to put it on.
if your puffing batts your running the wrong prop or voltage or motor. i have had a thousand charges on a lipo. 2 hours to charge? you need a new charger. get more batteries also. i use cheap batts not the big name high priced batts.
As you concluded, horses for courses, so neither is "better"
Personally I had enough of noisy, smelly, oily glow motors when I was younger and today enjoy the ease of use of quiet, clean electric power but I can see the attraction of glow and petrol engines for the right type of model and flying location.