heliboy1023
Veteran
Location: Tinton Falls, NJ
| Here it is priced out if you want to fly a lot (Doesn't include costs of kits and such which are very close in price depending how you go)
Here is what you would need electric to get in 20+ flights a day where you can get 4 flights per hour for 5 hour on a 50 sized electric. Each battery takes 1 hour to charge. (Each battery is a FP 22.2v 4900 pack and will say can get 100 cycles before its lost its punch)
5 batteries= (300*5)=$1500
4 TP 1010 charger (200*4)=$800
4 blink balancers (40*4)=$160
4 deep cycle batteries (80*4)=$320 about the same as a good generator
Right there is $2780, and every 500 flights (25 weeks) You would need new packs.
Now, lets say I fly nitro, and I have a 500cc tank. That is a 7.5 tanks per gallon. So I will go through 3 gallons of fuel in that time. Lets say fuel is expensive, and is $30 a gallon. So that would be $90 for those 20 flights. And lets say 3 receiver packs are 40 each which is $120, and a cheap lipo charger for them is $40.
It would take about 30 weeks with that type of flying for fuel and the initial cost to equal that of batteries and initial supplies. Mind you this is 20 flights in 1 day, 1 day a week.
Now, I didn't add up flight time. I know for hard 3d, a well tuned 50 sized nitro ship will get around 8 minutes or so with a good pilot.
Electric is about 4:30 for the same flying with the same pilot.
So overall flying time for those 20 flights is down.
When actually priced out, 50 sized an up electrics are very, very expensive if you want a lot of flying time. However, if money isn't an issue, get both.
You know you have to many heli's only when your wallet is empty. |
If I went the electric route I would have 3 batteries or maybe only 2 since they are so expensive, so that's $1,000 in batts for 20 mins flight time unless you cart your chargers to the field as well which means you need more equipment to take to the field.
