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Originally Posted by DaveG28
I'd like to know the Ifmar/far east rules too, can't see Yok/Tam doing Lipo cars until they are allowed!?
The thing I don't quite follow is if Roar have had the rules for a year but just relaxed for saddles as none fit, how come a year later there still aren't any? Or is the ROAR rule just totally different?
I did spot what looked like a hard cased saddle in LRP wrapping at the weekend, but don't know if it really was, or what size it was!
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Well, who knows! We don't have inside information - so we just have to guess. My personal guess is that it was impossible or not practical to make saddles small enough to fit the size specs. Remember as opposed to NiMH you must have all bars/soldering/wires INSIDE the casing, in addition to the hard casing itself. While NiMH cells are measured without bars/wires/connectors. This is a logical breach! First of all mixing LiPos with NiMH cells is mixing apples with oranges. Furthermore - since the EB was so insistent on the rules being consistent - why is it you measure "bare" NiMH cells and complete LiPo packs???
So... in the US I guess nobody made small enough LiPo packs. I'm sure it can be done, but the burst rating and capacity would be quite small - hence not a very tempting solution anyways. I'm guessing 2000-2500 mAh'ish... Maybe still possible to use for 1:10 OR, but defo useless for touring (if they allow it later). And you'd anyway loose the fantastic long runtime you can enjoy during practise.
Good capacity and powerful hardcased LiPo were on the market - and the drivers wanted to use them - so they used common sence in the US and relaxed the rules. It doesen't take much common sense to understand that a hardcasing of two sets of cells must be bigger than one set...
I'd really wish that the organizations could start to cooperate more, we all have common interests here!
It know it may sound radical, but I don't see why we couldn't all follow IFMAR rules. EFRA could then just be a sub-organization of IFMAR. Doing what they do today, but all rules would be IFMAR rules. Furthermore I really hope the EFRA restructuring will happen, it would be great to have fully employed (paid) officials. Imagine how much good could have been done then! And no more "volunteer work on your spare time"...