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1/5 Scale Leopard Turbine Powered Car / Monster - 06.03.2010, 02:01 AM

OK Guys this is not quite brushless but I thought you may like this slightly crazy project

Lauterbacher / FG Leopard truck was used to mount a Wren XL 200 Turbine.






The Turbine develops 15kg of thrust. The Car weighs 12.5kg fully loaded with Jet A1 Turbine fuel.

The installed fuel tank will power the car approx 8 minutes.

The video shows flames at the start... this was because the gas canister was lying on it's side and was pouring liquid gas. Normally the valve only lets out gas - you can see that as soon as I lifted the gas cartridge the flames disappeared. I left the flames as I thought it added a bit of fun to the video.

The throttle / power of the turbine was set at 1/3 of full power (50, 000 rpm) for most of the run apart from end when it was brifely on the paved section.
The engine was littlerally idling at that level of thrust but due to size of the space of the garden and I did not want to wreck the car by getting too fast by opening up the throttle (120 000 rpm). The car was controlled by using brakes to slow down rather than changing thrust of the turbine.

I know this is not brushless but hopefully you will enjoy the video.

Hopefully when we are confident we will take this out to a public place and open the throttle 100% and see what happens.

I am waiting on Mikes 1/5 scale Baja Brushless conversion. The donor car (Hpi 5B 2) is waiting, the Brushless Lehner 3060 motor with a Schulze speed controller are going to power this on 10S Lipos...

Mohan

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