There is no issue with LiPos, there is an issue with people who leave the impression that the only way to go it LiPos. Of the six electric classes in the BRCA, only two can use LiPo under their current Rules, and yet all we hear is that Rules have to change to allow LiPos!
If you want to run LiPo in Off-Road and TC Super Stock, knock yourselves out. But please change the rhetoric to be more inclusive of all the people who don't run in those classes, and stop giving the impression that they are not available.
Mark, grow up. BL has not proved to be anything like as easy to use as was promised, which was always my point. It didn't take off until the motors were made to feel more like BR. They have proved more expensive than BR to remain competitive. Failures are not uncommon, and expensive. The Stock classes (10.5) are now much more difficult to set-up as they motors have adjustable timing to sort out as well as ratio.
I use them, they're good enough, and the classes were set up to kill BR. However, I spend as much time on maintenance as I ever did, and as the motors get more and more bullet-proof, the speedos become the weakest link. They're good products, but they are not what was promised. So it will be with LiPo.
As Benh says, NiMh is every bit as good as LiPo, and since you, Mark, have not used the latest NiMh cells, you don't know how good they are. That you cannot be inclusive of all the products in the market to the overall benefit of electric RC is very disappointing.
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