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Originally Posted by DCM
The EB have only gone and alienated the club racers basically, for ditching duff and dangerous cells, thats how I see it. They would of given a slighly longer dimension for a saddle pack, and catered for everyone. But they have been short sighted in what they have done.
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Club racers are the one group of users that the new lipo rules don't effect. The BRCA rules are only mandatory at BRCA sanctioned events, the BRCA nationals and the BRCA regionals. If other championships and clubs want to run to the BRCA rules that is down to them. At my local club I don't think any of the 'club racers' even bother checking the batteries they buy are on a BRCA list or not as the club does not have a rule that the batteries everyone uses must be on the EB list. This also means all the 1/5th bike national racers at the local club can use their soft cased lipos from their bikes in their cars and buggies, for example.
As for classing all nimhs as "duff and dangerous" I now run Ener-G 4600 saddle packs in pan cars, these cells are loved by the 1/12th lads. After the race put them in the pit box and leave them there until next weeks race. Take them out, discharge and charge them and that's it. They don't self discharge much, after 9 months all have been totally reliable and not head any stories of them exploding.