things have moved on...

[cjm_2008]

first off, awesome forum

this is a sort of 'you don't know how good you've got it today' type post

I had my first race meet today, the first for about 6 years. I decided to go nuts and buy myself an associated b44, a 10.5 brushless motor, and 2 packs of trakpower 3200 saddles (after riding down to apex models because they sent me sticks in error.....). when I first got into the hobby, it was with a tamiya madcap and 1400s - in 93'

when I left the hobby last time round, people were running sanyo 3000s - and a lot of racers were still runing 2400 nicads. I was running a 27t touring car, and 2000s were the best I could afford. dumping would always be in the back of your mind during races.

I had to get my comm skimmed every other race meet, and change the brushes to maintain performance on the stock motor... after each run, you could fry an egg on the cells and motor.

today I was honestly blown away - the lipo cells give relentless power, the motor barely gets warm to touch, and the most hilarious thing of all is that after each heat, when re-charging the lipo cells, they never needed more than 1200 miliamps. bonkers.

I don't view the past with rose tinted glasses - with conventional sub-c cells and brushed motors, the past was pretty crap!