Yippee! What the postman brought

[acerc]

Woo Hoo! My new wood rasp was shipped today, expected delivery of Friday...
And today I ordered a new pencil, .3mm, being mine was shot. Might as well have a new one along with all the other new tools.

 

[AKNick]

Nice gesture, but for what it is worth... I have decided to boycott Amazon. If ebay doesn't have what I am looking for then I will do without. I refuse to support the "WORMS" that are infesting our hobby and making it difficult for us to keep our airspace. Might as well start the movement somewhere right?

Um ya... try shipping random odds and ends to Southeast Alaska without Amazon, you wouldn't be buying much. Most of our planes coming in are hauling amazon boxes. More boxes = more jobs = healthy economy = nick gets his goods shipped cheap and relatively fast. When I worked on the FedEx planes I would help sling boxes when they were short staffed just because I could... and trust me Amazon if popular here almost 30% bulk increase last year. Just think about that. Oh and It's sad when Petco has a 40lb bag of dog food for $70 and Amazon has the same bag shipped to your door in less than a week for $40. Guess what petco.. you lost business with an almost 40-50% price gap... justify that. Sitka and Ketchikan got a lot of dog food HA HA
Nobody sells Redline here in Juneau. But Amazon does online, with the best price, and fast free shipping.
So you were saying what @stangflyer ? LOL welcome to my neck of the woods.

 

[stangflyer]

Um ya... try shipping random odds and ends to Southeast Alaska without Amazon, you wouldn't be buying much. Most of our planes coming in are hauling amazon boxes. More boxes = more jobs = healthy economy = nick gets his goods shipped cheap and relatively fast. When I worked on the FedEx planes I would help sling boxes when they were short staffed just because I could... and trust me Amazon if popular here almost 30% bulk increase last year. Just think about that. Oh and It's sad when Petco has a 40lb bag of dog food for $70 and Amazon has the same bag shipped to your door in less than a week for $40. Guess what petco.. you lost business with an almost 40-50% price gap... justify that. Sitka and Ketchikan got a lot of dog food HA HA
Nobody sells Redline here in Juneau. But Amazon does online, with the best price, and fast free shipping.
So you were saying what @stangflyer ? LOL welcome to my neck of the woods.

Ok, I'll give ya that one brother. But I'm holding it against you because ya live way up in the boonsticks.

I get what you're saying. But damn, I dislike thems peoples ya know?

 

[AKNick]

Oh I feel ya though brotha

 

[Xpress]

My GT500 DUO showed up yesterday. Works fantastic, will have to put together some kind of charge case to mount it in with my 24v 69a power supply. I'm not much one for parallel boards and usually recommend against using them but the ones FMA has for these chargers seem to be smarter than the average board, so I'll look into getting a couple to use

 

[dhal22]

My GT500 DUO showed up yesterday. Works fantastic, will have to put together some kind of charge case to mount it in with my 24v 69a power supply. I'm not much one for parallel boards and usually recommend against using them but the ones FMA has for these chargers seem to be smarter than the average board, so I'll look into getting a couple to use

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Hey, that's twice as big as mine.

 

[acerc]

Hey @Xpress, could you post the measurements or better yet the charger with something like your hand holding it?

 

[acerc]

The new pencil came today, smaller lead size, nice and new, sweet.

 

[Xpress]

Hey, that's twice as big as mine.

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It's one of about 15, 2 port chargers I now have I've got 2, X2 400 chargers and 2, X2 700 chargers of ours, so this one lands right in the middle. I still like the simplicity of my Hitec chargers, but they don't do 8S like this one does (not like I need 8S capability, or 10S for that matter (like my 1000w unit does) ). My Multiplex 1000w duo seems to work just as good as this, albeit it's a little bit more spendy.

Hey @Xpress, could you post the measurements or better yet the charger with something like your hand holding it?

They have dimensions on their website:

http://www.revolectrix.com/GT500DUO_specs_tab.htm

The packs are Pulse 2s 2550 rx packs if it gives you any sense of size.

 

[acerc]

Did not think about looking there but just did. It would fit in my box so I may just order one. Thanks.