BRCA Micro EGM proposals

[Mini-JT]

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[Checa]

Originally Posted by Mini-JT

Intellect also do a hard case micro pack as well.

Like I said in a previous post thinking of safty is great but with the hard case issue the LRP and Intellect packs only fit a minority of current micro chassis, (no 2WDs, Losi, Thunder Tiger or Tamya for example). If you have say a club running to an EB list only you've effectivly created a spec class due to the cells shape & size limiting what chassis can or can't be run, not good for diversity or those without a compatible car.

I'm not against the idea of a list or improving safety, but it sounds more like something for the clubs involved to set at there own EGMs rather than at national EGM level.

Fit in a 2WD Shark sorry i just could not resist

[sldmodels]

understand what you're saying, but they will do a hard cased lipo for 2wd as and when the demand is there (whoever they are). can you currently run lipos at your club?

see, you should be able to buy a hard-case, to put existing lipos in, or at least I think that would be a good idea.

[Ben Turner]

Tupperware box??

[sldmodels]

LOL! nagh, something thing that can be appoved as a hardcased thing, suppose it would just take someone who knew about plastics to be able to do it.

[Mini-JT]

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[_Bish_]

Surely hardcased micro lipo's could go on the same list as 1/10th lipo's??
As they fit the rules the EB use.

[sldmodels]

That would seem to be the easiest thing, I mean it has allready been extended from touring cars to other classes, and it's not the 1/10th tc eb, it's just the eb.

[Mad-Wolfie]

just my 2p worth.. i found a quote on a 1:1 racing forum, but i think the quote applies to RC just as well, not just in Micro, but all scale.

"The single greatest cost to a team is when a new rule renders their current equipment uncompetitive or worse, illegal"

something to ponder.

[c0sie]

After a night out on the beer that quote has made my head hurt at this early hour!

But I kinda see your point

[sldmodels]

just a quickie, any update on the hard-cased lipo situation, or is that doomed till next time now?

[espana]

thought micro scale was cheap to run.if hard-cased batteries are between 48-100 pounds each.

[c0sie]

Right....as I see it...

"Micro" sized hard cased LiPo packs fit within the dimensional sizes on the current EB list.

Therefore, as far as I am aware it is down to the UK distributors of each relevant micro pack to submit these packs to the EB for addition to the list.

The distributor has to show the EB that the micro packs are freely avaliable in the UK (non internet sales), thats the only bit that might prove tricky.

Sarah, you need to speak to the distributors of which ever pack(s) you want on the EB list and ask them to submit.

According to the EB rules, submission costs the distributor nothing other than the pack that they send.

[peetbee]

Originally Posted by sldmodels

just a quickie, any update on the hard-cased lipo situation, or is that doomed till next time now?

Don't know, have you contacted the EB at all since it was suggested that may be the way forward?

As c0sie, Bish and myself earlier in the thread have suggested, the LRP should comply with all existing EB requirements. However, when I was reading the EB rules 'ANYONE' can submit a pack for approval, so if SMD don't want to send a pack into the EB there's nothing to stop you. Plus it's free.

I don't mean to be a grump (I'm not sure quite where my christmas spirit has gone) but why don't you contact the EB and see what they say? Just do it quickly as the cutoff for the 2010 list is looming.

[DCM]

contacting Paul Worsley

[peetbee]

Originally Posted by DCM

contacting Paul Worsley

who is? you is?

[c0sie]

I would suggest that Sarah should, seeing as it is here that raised this issue initially.

Too many cooks, etc?...

[DCM]

I ain't, I have had his emails before, and they still give me headaches!!!

[sldmodels]

think it might be a bit too late now, but will try if I get chance.

[sldmodels]

Got a reply back from Paul tonight. It looks like it's too late, and also, the manufacturer or distributor is the one who has to submit the cells anyway (Cosie, if you've not got the rules, let me know and I'll forward you what Paul sent me).