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Originally Posted by lutach
A company as big as Novak and this is the best they can do? Do they really think everyone will buy their HV (Not HV if you ask me) esc/motor for 1/8 scale? They have the buying power to actually make a kit of their own. Lets not forget, Castle too will be offering a similar kit, but you can use other motors with that one. I would really expect something different from this big companies. I posted some pictures of what I designed in radiocontrolzone's Caster thread and some of the guys there didn't like what I did. I was just trying to prove a point. If a guy like me with no experience at all can make a kit from the ground up, why can't the big companies do one as well? Are they too proud that they only think what they make is the best for all of us? This is my wondeful thought. Most of you will not agree, but hey I sometimes like to be different and stir up trouble  . |
We all know that5 you like to stir the pot! You do it so well too! I always get a laugh, as I can "read" your sarcasm. You do make a good point, the novak setup is not HV, just higher voltage than their 2s systems. Novak are a racing company (that like to make the rules) and are trying to get into the growing larger scale conversion market. Nothing against their hv, but I am not impressed, and the price is too much. They sell the hv motors with the 5mm shafts for more than 150! You can get a mega, or medusa for that price, almost a neu.
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Originally Posted by BL_RV0
Yeah, personally I think they know nothing. They just build a truck to complete a conversion to advertise a "new" product, and don't custom make anything, to just show what you can get. As far as I'm concerned, you can beat anything "out of the box" with something with that great personal touch.
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The mag guys do suck, they occasionally come up with something good, but those are few and far between. I guess that they are catering to the cretinous noobs, and not the rest of us who know what we are doing!
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Originally Posted by Matthew_Armeni
A 6.5hv will work just fine on 3s. That's a 3400kv motor, so at 11.1v it's spinning 37,740 rpm, that's pretty fast to me. I usually aim for around 29-34k when I pick out my battery motor combo (depending on track size). As for the brakes, they may have not been put on for the studio shots but I can only guess as to why they're not there.
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The novak motor has a small diameter rotor/magnet assy, so it does not have much torque. It prefers higher motor speed and lower gearing. No comparision to a xl motor in the torque department. I cannot really see why anyone would do that. I have a hv6.5 in my crt.5 on 3s lipo, and it sucks, I tried to gear it up for more speed, and just lost power. I am comparing it to a plett maxximum, but it still sucks for a 150 dollar motor.
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Originally Posted by TexasSP
I guess that is one reason I stopped reading the magazines. some of the setups just make you wonder. I also get tired of the mag being 90% trash and advertisements, the other 9.5% nitro, and .5% electric and you're lucky if it's even worth reading.
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Yep, 90% trash, and all of those maxamps ads just make me wonder. I do love the reader vote crap, one mag even put servos and escs in the smae category. How stupid is that? That would be like putting 1/10 nitro truck and 5th scale in the same category. Makes me wonder...