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Originally Posted by DCM
Currently, batteries give out far more power than we can use, so mil spec batteries won't help you, now, mil spec electronics that significantly increase efficiency is a different matter.
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You are looking at from a narrow minded off road only view.
The reason drivers in other classes will buy the highest capacity cells is to keep as high an average voltage over the length of a race, for the most speed from the spec motor that just about every on road electric class runs. By using the EB list it ensures
1. That all batteries are available to buy in the UK.
2. That the batteries allowed are fixed for the year, so there's no battery of the month as new higher capacity cells come out.
This why all the other sections that use the EB lists consider them a good thing.
As off road is open regarding motors then voltage isn't a problem, and no one is trying to get down to the minimum weight in their buggies, off road is unique in electric classes by battery choice not being that important. If off road created a class with a fixed motor wind, with no battery restriction it would come down to battery performance to get the most speed possible with drivers buying higher and higher capacity packs to get that little extra speed out of the motor. Just like the old days of nimh when everyone chose to race with Intellects, even though they were unreliable junk that regularly failed or even exploded, but just because they kept a very slightly higher average voltage than other cells.