WOW, look what Cockerill has started again, first it was tyres and now lipo`s
I think a lot of people on here have very valid points for and against lipo?
Personally i will be using them in anger for the first time over the winter and i like the idea of them because it will allow me to use 2 cars on the same day, Easy
BUT............
I will have to keep my Nimh cells and use them for regionals which is a bit of a ball ache but thats life.
I never actually thought about it up until a few days ago but i have just replaced my gear over the last month, ie new charger/equaliser etc but didnt really think that lipos wont need to be equalised.
but i also think that some tracks will suit nimh better next year and some will benefit from lipo cells.
Will this become a tuning option? Its easy to swap between them in 2wd but 4wd may become a bit of a pain but thats life, nobody likes gluing tyres but we all do it.
I think Ben H has some points but i also think he is way wide of the mark on some others, saying that Old timers are against it is wrong. Our very own OldTimer is the one who is putting a set of rules together for the BRCA handbook, we also have Mark Christopher who i remember racing radion race car series on road when i was about 12, these 2 alone are championing lipo with the support of many other top national drivers and Multiple European `A`Finalist Tom Cockerill.
Technology does move on we know this but even if lipo is only round for 3 years, whats wrong with that?? We have seen Nimh increase so much over the last decade (ish) to the point that they are becoming dangerous, in a world of Health and safety surely that alone would warrant serious consideration for a change.
A few people know that at the F2`s the other week i had a cell go bang. I thought it only happened to those who abused their cells, my cells had been equalised and charged correctly, they were in my car ready to go for a practice and they did not peak for some reason, i heard little ben squeal as he shouted me from the next tent as they were hissing, it melted the battery strap and i emptied them onto the grass, this is where the series of comedy events begins, i kicked the cells away aiming for an open piece of grass but they curled off under someones mondeo, i then had to scoop them out with my foot only for them to become stuck under the tyre, mean while im waiting for these to take my leg off when they go up, i managed to clear them and get them into an open area, approx 30 seconds later Bang, they went off like a shot gun and i was thinking if they had of done that whilst i was getting them out of the car etc i could well be blind now. These cells have reached there limit now IMO