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E-Revonut
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01.10.2010, 03:39 AM

For $300 I wouldn't have been able to resist either! Gas and nitro are two different animals. I don't see the need to convert a 1/5 scale gas to brushless. It just doesn't seem worth it. $5 worth of gas and you can play all day! On the other hand $5 towards a brushless conversion might buy the connectors to go from the motor to the esc! The cost of a conversion on something that size is just too high! Your going to need a GOOD motor, no Hobby city motor is gonna push that thing and not go into a thermal meltdown, so your looking at $300-$400 for the motor. HV is gonna be necessary and I don't know if 6s and a MMM will handle what this thing is gonna need. Then the batteries, even if you did wait around till HC had some lipos in stock your gonna need at least 2x 6s 5000+mah to get any runtime. So far that means you could get the better pipe for it and put about 150 gallons of gas through it before you come close to costing the same!


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