Hacker E40 Brushless Motors

[Chesty]

Anybody use or know about these?

How do they compare with the more popular brands, LRP, Novak, etc

[chris_dono]

they are much much quicker

[mark christopher]

should be brca legal

[Lightblue]

I had a 6.5 Hacker in my B44, It is great motor. Good price too. The can and endbell look exactly like a Novak if you compare the two. Highly recommended!

[mikeyscott]

How much are they compare to the other main brands?

[KRob]

Originally Posted by mark christopher

and brca legal

Mark, not on the lists I've just downloaded from the BRCA site??

[colmo]

Originally Posted by KRob

Mark, not on the lists I've just downloaded from the BRCA site??

It's not on the 10.5 list - maybe the modified?

[KRob]

Nope, checked that as well... (and the 13.5 just to be certain...)

[colmo]

I believe it's ROAR legal - perhaps that's the point of confusion.

[Chesty]

Thanks for the info guys. Looked on the website, if it's good enough for Josh Cyrul, it's good enough for me

Shame about the BRCA thing, I'll run it at club meetings...

If it's ROAR approved, I would have thought it would be OK to be submitted for BRCA/EFRA approval.

Surely it would pay for itself in extra sales

[colmo]

Originally Posted by Chesty

Thanks for the info guys. Looked on the website, if it's good enough for Josh Cyrul, it's good enough for me

Shame about the BRCA thing, I'll run it at club meetings...

If it's ROAR approved, I would have thought it would be OK to be submitted for BRCA/EFRA approval.

Surely it would pay for itself in extra sales

I'm not sure if there's a major UK distributor for Hacker - it's usually they that submit products to BRCA, is it not?

I believe there's nothing to stop you submitting it to them yourself!

[Lightblue]

http://www.microtechracing.com//prod...1%2F10TH+SCALE

... under £58 too, can't go wrong!!

[colmo]

Originally Posted by Lightblue

http://www.microtechracing.com//prod...1%2F10TH+SCALE

... under £58 too, can't go wrong!!

I've seen those - they must be buying them directly from Hacker in Germany. Without a distributor like CML or Mirage (RIP!) with a vested interest in promoting that product in the UK market, there's no-one willing to go through the hassle of BRCA submission.

Edit: Thanks for the update - I did not realise TrakPower/Flightpower were a distributor in their own right.

[mark christopher]

hacker are distributed in the uk by trakpoer/flighttech, i was lead to belive they were going to be brca aproved

[KRob]

Ah, not so Colmo,
Trakpower/Flighttech bring in the Hacker motors.
We have asked numerous times if they will get them homologated but no joy

That's why Mark's post intrigued me, but he has yet to reply...
Edit: Arse - what were the chances of that - 3 days and nothing and the very same minute

[KRob]

Originally Posted by mark christopher

hacker are distributed in the uk by trakpoer/flighttech, i was lead to belive they were going to be brca aproved

Mark, that is quite a different statement to the one you made originally about the legality of these motors...

[mark christopher]

kieth
Was lead to believe in jan/feb they were brca ok, some of my team mates run em , i have asked and will find out from trakpower why there not.

[Chesty]

Ran my Hacker E-40 6.5 for for the first time competitively yesterday.

Wow

It was ballistic - as quick as anything on the track (including a right numpty running a 4.5L & 35C Lipos) & super smooth too.

Only thing letting them down is the BRCA approval thing...