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Originally Posted by RogerM
On the money mate!!
My E4500 packs haven't been touched for 2 weeks and only took 600mAhs this evening to peak (storage charge check) and before that they had gone 2 months without dropping much.
Playing devils advocate here,
assuming there are packs available that fit the dimentions quoted in the rules what is the problem?
Surely you either buy those packs, a car that takes sticks (ZX5-SP / Cat SX / Durga probably others), or run NiMhs.
How is this different from this year where we had to buy new cells in order to do the nationals if we had IB4200s? My IBs were only 4 months old and still going strong but I wanted to race at the nationals so bought E4500s as did many, many others!
I am hoping that somebody comes on here and explains why the dimension thing is a problem as I really don't understand!!
Sub C-cells are 23mm dia. so that only leaves 1mm for second heatshrink and glue to be inside the 139mm length! To me the regs read as follows
"LiPo packs have to fit into a car designed to run with the current norm of 6 sub-c cells so nobody has to buy a new car just to run the LiPos"
Have I intepreted the dimention rules incorrectly???
I understand why people who have the trakpower saddles feel a little hard done buy but I really can not see any difference to those people who had to buy new cells around Xmas07 or not race for 4 months until the 08 cells were legal!!!
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I bought Trakpower without researching enough whether there were other options. Hopefully some more will go on a list soon!! If not will run Nimh. I agree its my lookout, and I knowingly took the risk when buying.
I am not complaining about being caught out this way!
I am in favour of dimension rules myself, I think it should be ok to try and fit them in most current cars. The actual dimension itself seems odd though, as the Trakpower size fits most things (except maybe pred's?). The bit that worries me is that we have a resurgent 4wd class and it would be a shame to put a dampener on it by having rules which effectively favour a few cars. By which I mean I am guessing most people will run Lipo and whatever car it goes in, not keep running nimh. I could be wrong on that I guess!!
Maybe its all a Schu conspiracy!!!
As an aside but related topic, which cars will run stick packs? The Cat yes, ZX5 SP yes, Durga too? Sure Old Timer has mentioned a way of getting them in an S4 too, and I may have read someone got one in an X5? Anyone managed it in a B44/Bx/501X??
With the ZX-5, I thought I'd read they were runnng the FS or something for the team, isn't that saddle formation? Wonder if they'll use the SP now!