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Originally Posted by johnrobholmes
Were you willing to get 100 of them made? I don't think they can get the car software on the hydra control board without a ton of time, matter of fact I know it would take a lot of programming. Stacking boards is a lot easier.
Personally I don't like the idea of an easily available SHV car controller. SHV planes take a ton of skill to pilot, you have to work up. SHV boats are in the hands of older skilled drivers as well, you won't find many 14 year old kids running 12s setups. Put a SHV car controller out and suddenly every 16 year old with a paycheck will want a 45 volt revo just because it will be the biggest and baddest on the block. No way in hell I would sell it unless I knew who was buying. The last thing I would want to hear about is how Billy shorted his 10s 4400 pack and blew his finger off with 8000 watts.
Sorry for the rant, it is a discussion that I have had with a few ESC manufacturers and they all say the same thing about high voltage car setups: 6s is dangerous enough. I would love to have a 10s setup, but I don't trust the average RC car enthusiast with it. The folks on this site are for the most part WAY above average.
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I was only going to use them for myself. I have over 15yrs of RC experiance. My first HV was when Aveox released their sensored system. I also use to install car audio and have been electrocuted by one of those multiple 800+ CA (8 of them 6400x12=76800 watts) car audio batteries and I'm still here craving more watts
. Even if I had the SHV controller, all I was going to use it with is maybe 14S lipos max on a low turn big motor such as the 1521/2Y (40A), 1521/3D (44A) or a 1527/2Y (35A) and it is not to go fast, but to run it up to twice as long. A lot of people think that High Voltage means speed, but in my usage HV means less AMPs. I can use cheap 2200mAh packs and still run them for around 24 minutes on grass going around 45MPH. In a race that can mean a 30 minutes main due to less load from dirt. Also, I like to keep a margin on voltage. My controller for example will be able to handle 15S lipos, but I'm going to use 10S-12S lipos only and I'll have a marging of 11.1v to be safe. We all know what happens when a controller see voltage close to the FETs spec, they tend to have a melt down. So people keep in mind, HV means less AMPs, more run time and be able to use cheaper lipos.