Awsome!!! :thumbsup:

not the case at all chris

just keep topping em up, no loss of performance is noticed

So me having 4 5300 50c lipos really is stupid!!!!

Cheers Mark

Chris

er putting it like that........ :p

flog some and buy some saddles for your durango chris ;)

hahaha! I hope mr Ball has you on a good discount!!!!!


Chris

kepping the lipos in my car is not an option... first of all, I work on the car between every race, and it is a total pain in the a** to have all these leads hanging out. Secondly, when I am off for practice or a club race in an afternoon, I want to get as much track-time as possible, so I have 3-4 packs pre-charged, so that I can make good use of the time at the track. The track I go to the most is some 90 minutes drive from my house, so there is not that much effective time available.

This sounds exactly like me! practise is a killer when waiting for lipos to charge

That's fair enoughski, but just going back to the 1 lipo thing, I actually find they get much better after the first or second use when they've warmed up a bit. That said I don't race as much as I'd like so they may have stood for several weeks part charged between uses.

Use the old chassis ;)

http://www.ymr.no/10orTip4.htm

I know, that is actually an option :)

When I last raced I had two saddle 4200mah IP LIPO packs. One set were in the Durango and one in the CR2. I went out and practiced until each car was flat and I had alot of practice. I then recharged and was running both classes and there was only 5 heats of which I was in two of them. I got each car back to the pits and was back out marshalling in time and each pack was ready before each race. The track I attended is 2hours and 5 minutes away but I did not need any more packs for an every enjoyable club meeting.

I'm with you, Ami. I only own one pack, a year-old SMC handed down from Paul. It's all I need for any race I've ever attended. While I'm off marshalling and talking to the peeps, it's ready for the next race.

Glad to hear you all only need 1 pack, but that is not at all my experience, and I am looking for a solution to my problem....

I have some parts on its way, and will update you as soon as I see whether my plan sucseeds or not :)

BTW, I dont see any other cars out there that is not designed for replacing the battery between each race...

Totally agree Roy! :thumbsup:

Time is a limited resource! When I go to the track I bring with me a sack of charged batteries. I then practise for an hour or two non-stop, just replace the packs. Part of the beauty with LiPo is the possibility to have them pre-charged for days and weeks!!! That's gold!!! I've been doing RC flying for several years too. Sometimes the LiPos lay around for 6 monts+ ... and still perform just av well with close to full runtime!!!

The DMS brace on the old chassis works very well! Does it not fit the new chassis?

Mind you guys we also run 8 minute heats here in Norway! We plan to increase the length by 1 minute every year...

Did you have to modify the race format? The races we have organised over the winter all had to run 5 minute heats due to the amount of participants (90-120) How many racers do you have on average per race?

8 minute mains I can understand but 8 minute qualifiers must be super-boring...

Now, you guessed right. We are seldom more than 20-30 persons in total in each class, so we have plenty of room for longer heats :D

Well, since we now only qualify for best total time (not round-by-round) it's quite exciting actually! We race hard and go for it 100% in the qualis as well!

I like the possibility of recovering in a longer final. Not much you can do in 5 minutes only... I'm used to 45 minute mains from 1:8 TR, which is really excellent! ... one day...

Imagine electric classes with really long finals and christmas tree finals... how cool wouldn't that be?

I think that the reason I can just have one pack per car is probably because I have a decent charger. I use a Hyperion 0615i DUO III which can balance charge two lipo packs at up to 3C on a 5000mah Lipo pack assuming that the manufacturer says that you can :) It really does make a difference having a high power charger.

Yes, but we're limited to max. 1C charge rate for safety reasons.

You dont want to look at a Losi JRXS-R for touring car then! Makes fitting and changes cells on the X6 SQ look very easy indeed...... :D

have to agree with SHY here, should also add that whenever I go racing for a club race, I have to make sure my own and my three sons' cars runs well... therefore I have 4 chargers, a bag of batteries, and two boxes of spares to keep all the cars running. LiPo and brushless is indeed a blessing for RC-dads....