Mamba XL ver2?

[BrianG]

Originally Posted by lincpimp

Red items go faster. Why are all ferrari's painted red? Enzo knew back then, and he did not have any computer to tell him.

Now your flame decal theory is interesting. Do you think we could apply flame decals to the black wires in order to balance out the EPE flow? Any help will better than none, and flame decals would be easier to retrofit. Alot easier to tell the power companies that they do not need to replace 10s of thousands of miles of black wire. And any idiot can stick a sticker on.

Red items don't go faster. Like I said, they just appear to because they are brighter and catch your attention easier. Paint one brick red and another black, throw both of them with equal power and see which one is faster. Ferrari paints their cars red because people don't know better and they are just cashing in on the ignorance.

Flame graphics only work on surfaces exposed to the outside. Inside the vehicle, they make no difference. You need proof? Repeat the brick throwing test outlined above, except replace the bricks with a certain flame-labeled lipo pack and a "regular" non-flame pack. Make sure both weigh the same.

[Semi Pro]

Originally Posted by BrianG

Red items don't go faster. Like I said, they just appear to because they are brighter and catch your attention easier. Paint one brick red and another black, throw both of them with equal power and see which one is faster. Ferrari paints their cars red because people don't know better and they are just cashing in on the ignorance.

Flame graphics only work on surfaces exposed to the outside. Inside the vehicle, they make no difference. You need proof? Repeat the brick throwing test outlined above, except replace the bricks with a certain flame-labeled lipo pack and a "regular" non-flame pack. Make sure both weigh the same.

i conducted your test today because it was my day off and being greatly overpaid i was able to but 3 bricks, i painted one red, one black and covered the last one with flame stickers.

after some thinking i decided the most scientific way of testing would be to drop them, (it was less work than throwing them anyway) the red brick hit the ground at .23sec the black one hit the ground at .23 and the one with flames hit the ground at .23sec as well, but what shocked me was the c rating, both the red and black bricks had a c rating of 0, but the one with the flames turned out to 150c, i was shocked at first, do you guys think the sticker could have caused this?

[snellemin]

I've seen a rainbow Ferrari with green flames go as fast as a 1981 Toyota Corolla with red flames. Corolla had cross drilled exhaust tips and the Ferrari cross drilled brake pads. Dunno if that made a difference, but both used Bacon infused nitro.

[DrKnow65]

I've heard those rainbow colored ones go just as fast both ways ;-)

[snellemin]

Originally Posted by DrKnow65

I've heard those rainbow colored ones go just as fast both ways ;-)

Something Vin Diesel would quote.

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by snellemin

Something Vin Diesel would quote.

Don't say his name, Harold will become all moist...

[_paralyzed_]

Originally Posted by lincpimp

Don't say his name, Harold will become all moist...

the joke is on you Lincpimp, my diaper is always moist.

[Shonen]

Hmm...intriguing theories. If only they would coat the heatsinks and PCBs in teflon, the smoke wouldn't cause any damage...maybe on the XL v2.1?

[_paralyzed_]

Bacon, EPE, Proper flame curvature. This here is a good thread.

On topic- all failures seem to be bec related, not because of motor brakes or reverse.

I will simply run a rx battery pack. There is a great big spot for a battery in the stock radio box- I'll put my battery there.

[brian015]

Originally Posted by _paralyzed_

On topic- all failures seem to be bec related, not because of motor brakes or reverse.

That's what I've been reading as well. Has anyone heard of failures while running an external bec or rx pack?

With that, the off-topic discussion may continue...

Originally Posted by _paralyzed_

Bacon, EPE, Proper flame curvature. This here is a good thread.

On topic- all failures seem to be bec related, not because of motor brakes or reverse.

I will simply run a rx battery pack. There is a great big spot for a battery in the stock radio box- I'll put my battery there.

Hmm, that's strange. I'd rather have them without a BEC so there wasn't that part to fail. Rather use a CCPro BEC, as even if that burns up it's not a huge deal. I wonder if I should switch to an external BEC? Mines running fine so far.

[Kirkinsb]

Yep, mine failed using an external RX pack. Bummer...was running so good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJpjuC9AzWc

[Bmr4life]

Originally Posted by Kirkinsb

Yep, mine failed using an external RX pack. Bummer...was running so good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJpjuC9AzWc

It was running good. We need V3 soon. To bad we have to do V2 first, lol.

[Shonen]

i conducted your test today because it was my day off and being greatly overpaid i was able to but 3 bricks, i painted one red, one black and covered the last one with flame stickers.

after some thinking i decided the most scientific way of testing would be to drop them, (it was less work than throwing them anyway) the red brick hit the ground at .23sec the black one hit the ground at .23 and the one with flames hit the ground at .23sec as well, but what shocked me was the c rating, both the red and black bricks had a c rating of 0, but the one with the flames turned out to 150c, i was shocked at first, do you guys think the sticker could have caused this?

what was the temperature of the bricks after your test? was the 150C one considerably cooler than the red/black ones? Maybe it was defective?

[scarletboa]

Originally Posted by Shonen

what was the temperature of the bricks after your test? was the 150C one considerably cooler than the red/black ones? Maybe it was defective?

no. i don't need to see it to know that the black brick with flames and a 150c sticker actually fell a little slower and was almost twice its original size after the test. it also got over 150F. btw, this brick was "brand p"