Last Update: 07.08.2020
Model
- Kit: Taser UP (unplugged) Carbon, wing colours red / white
- Manufacturer: PCM, Austria
- Materials
- Fuselage: carbon fibre
- Wings: balsa / carbon fibre
- Status @ Flying Tom’s: flies
Key Figures
- Wingspan: 2’000 mm
- Length:
- Flight Weight
- Manufacturer’s Specification: starting at 400 g
Flying Tom’s Initial Estimate: 2 wings 125 g each + fuselage 54 g + tailplane 25 g + receiver 10 g + vario 6 g, 4 servos 8 g each + battery 2s 7.4V 950 mAh 65 g + rudder steering linkage 10 g + small parts & wiring harness 30 g = 482 g
Scaled: 498 g
- Manufacturer’s Specification: starting at 400 g
- Wing Area: 30.5 dm2
- Wing Load: 16 g/dm2
- Centre of Gravity (CG): 60 – 68 mm (manufacturer’s specification)
- Longitudinal Dihedral (LD): 1.8°
Components
- Receiver: Jeti Duplex R5L EX
- Servos
- Rudder / Elevator: 2 x KST X08 V 5.0
- Ailerons: 2 x KST X08H V 5.0
- Battery: Swaytronic LiPo 2S 7.4V 950mAh 35C/70C JST
- Telemetry: Jeti MVario2 (JEX-MV2)
- Tow Hook: high start, 25° in front of cg
Receiver Ports
- 1: rudder/elevator right
- 2: aileron right (green)
- 3: aileron left (red)
- 4: rudder/elevator left
- 5: power
- EXT: MVario2
Control Surface Settings
All figures in millimetres measured at the innermost (next to the fuselage) end of trailing edge of the respective control surfaces. Reference is the normal non-deflected position of the control surface.
- Physical Limits (steering linkage and servos installed, power off)
- Aileron
- Up: 20 mm
- Down: 30 mm
- Aileron
Cost
Replacement value as of 15.11.2019 in CHF (EUR 0.91, USD 1.01)
| Pos. | Description | Price |
| 1 | Grand total (1): Price BNF (bind-and-fly) | 1088.- |
| 1.1 | 1 Kit PCM Taser Unplugged Carbon | 699.- |
| 1.2 | Sub total (1.2): RC equipment | 367.- |
| 1.2.1 | 1 receiver Jeti duplex R5L EX | 72.- |
| 1.2.2 | 1 vario Jeti MVario2 | 96.- |
| 1.2.3 | 4 servo KST X08/X08H | 180.- |
| 1.2.4 | 2 servo frame RCSolution for X08H | 19.- |
| 1.3 | 1 battery Swaytronic | 12.- |
| 1.4 | consumables | 10.- |
| 2 | Spares & Auxiliaries | 12.- |
| 2.1 | 1 battery Swaytronic | 12.- |
Links
- PCM Taser F5J – Build Report: A lot of features of both, the Taser UP and the Taser F5J, are equal. There is no Flying Tom’s build report for the UP.
- PCM Taser UP model description
- PCM Taser UP manual
- Flying4Nature’s post Hahnenmoos – Flying Session (slope soaring with Taser UP), includes video
- Tom’s post Die Sache mit den Antennen
- Tom’s post Taser UP auf der Schwerpunktwaage
- Tom’s post Projekt Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde
