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Originally Posted by SlowOne
There is nothing to stop anyone doing this. Two receiver connections allowed - use the Y lead. Driven wheels - I think not! Where is the engine/motor driving the front wheels? Driven, by definition, means that there is an energy input to the wheels that creates a force to which there is an equal and opposite reaction. There is no energy input to the front wheels, they are being used as a means to allow conversion of the kinetic energy in the car to heat energy.
As Terry points out above, 23.13 might sink you if in the Committee's opinion...
Hope your hat is tasty, Jimmy!!  |
A Y-lead?
There is force going into the wheels by a servo is what you're saying but you're also saying there's no force going to the wheels. YES there is an energy input going to the front wheels - it's called friction and it would be coming from the servos which are putting in energy to the front wheels.
I won't be eating any hats I don't think
By use of sheer mechanical clever design you could in theory trigger servos to do other things that are within the wording but not spirit - and would not be legal.
End of for me - I think if it gets to the point you've got servos doing odd jobs all over the car I'll take up a new hobby. The idea is to race fairly - there are so many things that, say, a designer like the Awesomatix guy could do that we couldn't even dream up - using servos and other electrics to bypass the rules as they are written.
If you think binding up the front supension and putting forces into the front wheels is legal that's cool, I'm not gonna argue. My opinion is my own and this sounds like a hornets nest that could destroy 10th off road and the level of skill required to race it.