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Originally Posted by Paul Bristol
I can see nothing about 17.5t brushless and think we are just adding confusion here. Do we know how many current club members actually race Mini and use a 17.5t motor in the club ? Anybody a view ?
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My only reason for throwing the idea of 17.5t 2c non blinky into it, was it was a happy medium between the two classes. I realise its outside the two classes put down by the BRCA, but my thoughts were more aimed at what members may have already. They may not have a 17.5t or a 21.5t, but then they may have a 19.5t, it just opens the choice of what motors they have available to them already, without having to purchase a new one. But this is all probably academic and until you see what all members, have available to them and what they want to race, we won't really be able to make a final decision. So would probably be a good idea to bring this up on Friday night and see what they all want.
Whichever way we go, it will probably mean members having to purchase something to comply with the classes, weather it be a motor, speedo or battery and some members may find this difficult, especially some of the younger members.
2c 7.4 is probably what most members run down the club, which means they would need a 21.5t motor, otherwise if you have a hotter motor this would mean purchasing a 1c battery pack and running in F/B mode. Full blinky mode may well be difficult to police within our club and would rely on the honesty of the members, but it would only take one to take advantage and others would follow. Hence my reasoning of using motors up to 17.5t, it gives a bit more spread of motors members may have, 2c 7.4v batterys which probably most members run and you don't have the problem of policing F/B mode.
The last thing we want is to be to strict on the rules and people not been able to race because of it, I don't think we're that kind of club, but we do need some guidelines to run too. I guess we need to go through this more with the members that race on Friday nights and see what they have available to themselves and what they are wanting to race. We don't want to lose drivers by restricting what they can and cannot race, but it would be nice to see the class on a more even keel. Perhaps if we can't all agree to change, then possibly we can find a happy medium in the short term.
I'm happy to go either direction, weather it be 1s 13.5t or 2s 21.5t, but whichever I decide I too will have to buy a battery or motor to race
In the meantime any ideas thrown on this thread, may well be helpful to the club. Apologises for it's a bit all over the place, had to go off and do something half way through writing this.