LiPo packs and overall weight .....

[bigred5765]

lipos can be bought cheap to Rog, as cheap as £35 a pack, charger is same price £35, and if your not running brushless buy now well, i guess thats your choice,and the lipos will last twice as long as nimh, so cheaper in the long run,

[AmiSMB]

I feel that the rules have been laid down and as long as everyone is above the minimum weight limit that has been set by our governing body then that is fine.

[Crazy L]

Yeah.....what Grant said

[mark christopher]

Originally Posted by RogerM

You took your time Dan ... LOL

Sorry if it sounded like a whine, was just meant to start a debate nothing more!


You are probably right when you say about motoring down but that is only an option if you have the motors available to do so. What I mean buy this, assuming brushless now, is if your already running a 7.5 and want to motor down then you only have a choice of LRP / Nosram 8.5s or the Losi 8.5 then "Spec" class motors (LRP / Nosram, Speed Passion and Novak).

The other thing that confusses me is people can not state a major advantage of LiPo being cost effectiveness (I am refering to earlier posts not yours Dan') if they then have to buy new kit to work with it.
Simple sums;

LiPo £50ish, charger to suit £50ish, 2 new motors to suit 2x£65 = £230
3 x NiMh packs @ £36 each (based on Stormforce prices, not looked at others) = £108

Now I know that a lot of hardened racers buy new stuff each season so this doesn't apply to them. Also I know people might have to replace a pack or two mid season which would add cost. There are also people out there who are looking forward to the 3rd season on there 3700s and original 1-star motor. The sums above are intended as example only.


Again I feel the need to state that I am not anti-LiPo and just playing devil's advocate to further discussion.

I know that it applies to very few, if any, of the regulars to this site but I do get the feelling sometimes if having a pink fur covered bodyshell was the "next big" thing they wouldn't be able to keep up with the production of fake fur!!


All this has gone a little off topic.

The orginal question was basically do people feel disadvantaged by the fact that LiPo runners could have a relatively large weight advantage to NiMh runners? I think the results so far speak for them selves!!

rog i used to use nimh, had 7.5 in 2wd and 6.5 in 4wd, i dont think many who run nimh wont have these if brushless, i am NOT a good buggy driver, i have left my motors as is and swapped to lipo, so i dont think its fair to include motors in your costing (as outdoors i dont think many will motor down)

[elvo]

Originally Posted by DoughtyUK.net

a heavy car that you have to put a lot of maintenance into, a motor and battery combo that starts out punchy and after about 3 minutes starts to loose punch and almosts dumps at 5:20 ??

No, let's all run borderline oversize, explosively powerful cells which become useless after a few cycles. And melt down some motors. Much better!