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Balsa Density Calculator for metric and imperial units.
Gear Center Calculator
Wing Loading and Flight Speed Calculator


Here's a diagram showing how to make easy to solder Litz wire ends.
You might want to brush on some laquer or enamel over the exposed end of the wire if you expect the wires to move around and come in contact with each other or bare copper circuit board. I had a plug of a 60maH lipoly short out on one of the Litz wire leads. Be careful with Litz wire and lithium polymer batteries. fold the litz over a pin(about 2 or 3 mm length of wire) hold 2 strands with finger and thumb rotate pin same direction litz is spun remove pin apply flux to eylet with toothpick get a dab of solder on your iron tip(needs to be smaller dia than eylet) push iron tip into eylet wait till the smoke dissapears twist the eyelet around a few times pull eylet from iron tip touch up the solder and fill up the eylet if it did not fill up on removal your done - it takes less time to do than to explain and you can keep your iron in one hand when you get good at it. Once you have the eylet filled with solder all you have to do is touch it to whatever you want to solder it to the touch the iron to it , remove and let cool then you have a really nice strong solder joint.
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