Hi everyone,
Soooo, i had a near death experience...
read on to find out more, or you could skip the next paragraph to get to the RC news
Long story short, i was trying out for a scholarship to drive race cars and had an accident at the trial. I hit a wall and cracked one of the vertebrae in my neck all the way through, so pretty much i broke my neck. Luckily there was no splintering or anything and the doctors said i was very lucky not to have more damage to my spinal cord or anywhere else on my body given the force of the impact. I was in hospital all of last week and had an operation to fuse my vertebrae back together, and just got discharged at the start of the week. So i have to spend 6 weeks in a hard neck brace and then a couple of months in a soft brace. Eventually i'll heal nicely, but i can't get back into a race car for 3 months
. Therefore, i have NOTHING to do, which is annoying. Before alot of my time was taken up with training for my racing but as i heal i cant do any of that.
Due to the above paragraph, if you decided to read it
, i thought, this project has dragged on for waaaayyy too long, and i am going to drive this car when i get out of my hard neck brace. So last night i dished out some serious coin to get this show finally rolling. So this is what is currently in tansit to my place
:
Parallel harness
Liposack
OFNA 12v power supply
Hyperion 0610i DUO lipo charger
Spektrum DX3R radio system
2x RCM pinions
2x Neu Energy 5000mah 25c 5s packs
2x Hyperion balancer adaptor leads
I also have Mike making me some custom length dogbones and ordering me a MGM 28025 Z-series controller with all the programming cables.
I've now decided to run 5s instead of 6s, and run parallel packs to cope with the amp draw of the motor and hopefully increase runtime. 5s will run the motor around 42,000 rpm which should be really sweet. If i decide i want to try 6s im looking at getting 2x 6s 4800mah Zippy-R lipo packs, for that price id be stupid not to, but thats for later.
Hope you like the update, the end is in sight
jordan