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Originally Posted by suicideneil
Epic. 
There is a dire lack of review sites for the RC hobby; when I was researching my Digital camera choice, I was quickly able to find several online review sites listing every major model released by all the different known (and unknown) companies dating back several years. After a few hours of reading and cross referencing, I arrived at a decision based on helpful and honest reviews, with indepth testing and no favouritism towards any particular brand- you could also see user reviews along with the experts own opinion to see if they all had the same view.
With R/C, you have to rely on magazine adverts and sketchy reviews that are based on personal bias (remember the nitro vs electric revo conversion? the nitro won because the testers felt that the BL revo had too much power; clearly they knew nothing of proper setup or driving technique for the two different platforms) and gut feelings without any proper consistant or meaningful testing (lipo shoot out carried out with vastly differing lipo packs for example).
The best place to go for reviews are forums at present, which is good, but it still isnt the same as a dedicated review center with a well laid out data base of results based on consistant testing (use an appropriate vehicle and motor for each class of lipo (voltage/mah/C rating), based on bench testing with a CBA load tester, and an indoor track that can recreate the same loads and current spikes of normal running- real world results along with bench testing). |
how many people buy camaras every year?? how many people buy rc stuff??
we can all dream
