just to point out im answering questions not looking to arguee............chris/dcm!!
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Originally Posted by PaulRotheram
i cant see where people are coming from with having more spare time by running lipos.. how long does it take to press the bloody start button with nimhs?
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there is no discharging/equalizing/charge from flat, time is saved by finish your run, marshal (allow pack to cool) plug in charger and top up, so you can turn car round far quicker.
im lucky and have 4x lipo (which i loan 2 out for trial to anyone.) but in theory i could turn up with 4 packs and run a days racing without taking a charger and have the same performance, dont think i could with pre charged nimh charged the week before.
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Originally Posted by mole2k
My local club runs 19t buggys indoors on polished wood, I would quite like to see Lipo purely from a maintenance factor. It would leave me free to do more work on the car or help some of the other members.
I do agree with Neil Oliver that I think the packs should come pre-assembled perhaps with just the option of a splitting a stick pack and have discharge protection circuitry built into the battery itself. You very well may argue that this is unessecary as some speedo's have it but the fact still remains a lot of speedo's do not have the lipo protection.
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you can buy seperate voltage cut offs, novak, trakpower,jperkins and others all do em. when 6 volts is reached they cut the radio, i have used trakpowers and for a few seconds it stutters the motor then shuts the speedo down via the reciever link, they are relativly cheap, small and light