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Originally Posted by NovakTwo
When racing 1/8th Electric, are there any price caps or motor/esc requirements or regulations? ROAR enforces a $129.00 LP for modified BL motors, which will limit future innovation. If there are no 1/8th scale price limits, how much would racers be willing to pay for high performance motors and controllers? In what ways do you think the quality of our HV systems needs to be upgraded.
As before, comments and suggestions welcome.
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Rules? As I mentioned, we are basically all red-headed step children. There are few organized classes. Personally, the largest organized event I race with my Electric CRT conversion has been the RC Car Action Monster Madness race where we have a "Brushless Open" class. E-Maxxes, E-Revos, and other Brushless conversions all race in an anything goes type class. I've also raced at the RC Car Action Battery Blast race where there has been an Electric Monster Open and an Electric 1/8th buggy class. Again open, no rules.
Price? I'm a firm believer in "you get what you pay for..." Many of us are using very expensive ESCs. My Schulze 18.97 was about $400 when new however today many of us on 4s are using the Castle Mamba Max (about $140). For motor, there is a wide range. On the low end are Feiago's at around $90 and on the higher end are the Neu's at about $275. This class has not been cheap. However there is much buzz from three companies. Yours, Castle and Tekin. I think the general feeling is that when you three release products, price should come down.
Quality? I base my feelings on the experience of a racer at my local track. I'd be happy to give you his name offline but his HV system has been back to Novak something like 9 times, several of which were handled by the main man, Bob Novak himself! Two weeks ago at the RCMTRA race, he was running his HV system on 14 cells in a modified E-Maxx, at 6 minutes into the main, it went into thermal shut down. At the time it was about 50 degrees F outside in early Nov! His truck has no where near the power and speed of mine using a $90 Feiago motor.
Looking forward to seeing your next generation products.
DM