Vader says 'Yes' to LIPO

[Chris Doughty]

3.7v per 'cell' for LiPo

LiPo also hold their voltage a lot better under med-high amp draw from what I hear

[mark christopher]

What clubs allow them?

[jimmy]

John ran mine at batley on sunday. It wouldn't be allowed for the supercup, but a club meeting is no problem.

[mark christopher]

do york allow em?

[jimmy]

I raced at york with it and so has Brett

[bretts]

As Jim has said, I used my Trakpower LiPo at York on Saturday night. I've also run it at Garforth the week before.

I got it for two reasons

1. They are already used by many drivers at Garforth, so I was jumping on the bandwaggon.

2. I can now run two cars at York on the same night, without having to buy loads of new cells. I ran LiPo in my B4 and my other cells in my ZX5. My two races were one after each other, so it was a manic night. But twice as much racing, Yippee.

[sefton]

I'm buying a pack soon to go with my brushless setup for no hassel turn up and drive club meets!

Craig.

[mark christopher]

Originally Posted by bretts

As Jim has said, I used my Trakpower LiPo at York on Saturday night. I've also run it at Garforth the week before.

I got it for two reasons

1. They are already used by many drivers at Garforth, so I was jumping on the bandwaggon.

2. I can now run two cars at York on the same night, without having to buy loads of new cells. I ran LiPo in my B4 and my other cells in my ZX5. My two races were one after each other, so it was a manic night. But twice as much racing, Yippee.

do you run the mod class at york?

[bretts]

run a 540 motor!!, me? you must be mad

[xx4-nutter]

i tried the team orion one at york t`other week. very fast and pick up and loads lighter in the car. i saw rich lowe in the final last saturday in 2wd mod bliping wheelies down the straight..... pretty awsome lol.

rich what turn motor was you running ?

[mark christopher]

http://www.trakpower.com/

[super__dan]

Originally Posted by jimmy

John ran mine at batley on sunday. It wouldn't be allowed for the supercup, but a club meeting is no problem.

Actually Jimmy this is something we need to sort out. I specifically asked Steve at the start of the day and he said we were NOT allowing Li-po as Batley as Tom wanted to try Bretts and needed to find out.

I'll email him when I get a minute and we'll have to make a decision for the future.

I'm certain they won't be legal for the supercup though!

[super__dan]

Right, to quote Steve (Chairman);

'We are running to BRCA electric board rules

E.G no lipo

Stephen'

[jimmy]

At batley full stop ? even club meetings ? - supercup was never in question by me but I thought club meeting were a bit more relaxed.

In that case I need to find another club to race at

[mark christopher]

Originally Posted by jimmy

At batley full stop ? even club meetings ? - supercup was never in question by me but I thought club meeting were a bit more relaxed.

In that case I need to find another club to race at

how many are actually running to brca rules?
motors not on list
sintered in brushless
looks like ill be at york more than batley then for club meets

[jimmy]

Bury metro is another choice if the weather is good, they run pretty regularly and its always a good laugh. I ran the lipo there already in the X6

I need to race the Mamba Max in my review of that system also- so batley is out for me.

[super__dan]

Jim,

Whilst I might have on the face of it have appeared against Lipo, I'm not as such. I just have reservations!

What I think we need to do is next commitee/general meeting, talk about it and maybe even vote on it if that's appropriate.

Dan

[mark christopher]

ill be honnest here
BIWS allow then at shefield indoors in 19 turn and mod, out of 5 rounds so far only one lipo has won a class/round, and many are using them the performance gain track wise is miminal (as they run the min weight), the biggest benifit is for the user not having to charge/discharge/equalize etc, be sensible with them and fit and forget.
as i have said i have four packs and should i be at any club that wises to try/have them demo'd all your need is a speedo on corally's ill do the rest!
so if i come to batly ill lend em out to who ever and let you see for yorselfs what they are like.
how can a club decide without seeing them in action?

[andys]

Originally Posted by super__dan

Right, to quote Steve (Chairman);

'We are running to BRCA electric board rules

E.G no lipo

Stephen'

Dan, that's possibly the most crazy thing i've read in this interesting thread ! People who attend Batley CLUB meetings are there for a bit of fun, and anything that makes things easier is a big plus in my eyes. You seem to be hung up on the it's not fair cos it's higher voltage' thing, but please spare me. I'll tell you what's not fair, and that's turning up at a batley summer outdoor meeting to be racing against mainly sponsored / supported drivers that outclass you (or rather me ) and out pace you in every respect, running lipo isn't going to make a bit of difference here and I bet I'd still get overtaken down the straight !

I like the idea of lipo as it seems like it could be a good way of leveling the playing field in terms of speed of our cars, I believe in brushless for the same reasons. When I get around to attending batley I hope to be running lipo and hope others will do the same. I have run one in my tourer and all I can say it's totally brilliant in every respect, one battery for a full meeting is brilliant and I resent the fact that I will need to shell out on a load of NIMH cells to run the regional offraods this summer, especially as they appear to be so fragile and possibly dangerous. I accidentally shorted my Trakpower lipo whilst it was fully charged, managed to loose the battery out of my tourer whilst racing (crazy tape stuff came away) and generally have given it a hard time, i.e charging it again directly after racing. It's performed faultlessly and hasn't so much as gotten warm !

Lipo is the future, more to the point it's here so lets use it ?

[jimmy]

Agree with you Andy, lot of sense there. For club meetings this is a massive leveler like you say, brushless and lipo - we can go far faster than we can handle now if we want. There is no constant outlay of big money and fancy charging techniques and brush profiling etc etc.. Turn up, and race.. Thats what club racing should be about, just having fun racing..
I wouldn't suggest using LiPo at larger BRCA events, not yet, for the reasons discussed, there aren't enough manufacturers or standards etc.

I was happy to use brushless at the F345 finals, I was the only one in the A final running a brushless and I was only there because of it - I could not of afforded the time (motor maintenance) or money (cells) to go quick enough to get into the A otherwise. Thumbs up to progress.