would it make sense thou to use the regulation for worlds lipo throughout the electra season ?
Hi everyone !!
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You can do, I do for H1 and H2, Electra's 140g Mini Hydro weight limit (if it is still in place next year) offers a significant advantage over Naviga's 110g limit and mini packs are cheap enough that I have separate packs and props for Electra and bigger races.
The thing is that the competitive Naviga legal packs are all low C rate and pretty fragile, we want to take as much as we can out of them to get the most power, but if we take too much out they quickly degrade and/or puff up, you can run a higher cutoff voltage and use the same pack for a couple of years as I do, but you are giving away power to those that are more willing to lose a pack. The Electra (now spread to all of the UK) capacity limits came out to try and reduce that effect, the higher C rated cells are more robust, degrade slower and are more resistant to puffing, and they can be had cheaper too, so it isn't as big a hit if you do puff a pack.
There is Lots of talk about introducing electronic energy limiters which will mean that you can use any weight or capacity of battery. You purchase a limiter which will only let you take the allowed energy out of it. It sounds like the way forward, but Naviga can't legalise it till the meeting after the 2017 worlds, so I wouldn't expect it to be Electra legal till 2018 season.
Lots of people buy a fresh new pack for worlds.Paul Upton-Taylor, Greased Weasel Racing.Comment
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I expect to see just Redzone and Tenshock packs next year unless something else comes out before then, although the Chinese team will probably have unbranded cells from the factory that supply them, and I hear that there is a Russian chap making his own.Paul Upton-Taylor, Greased Weasel Racing.Comment
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Post some pictures Rob, you fit out your boats to a very high standard and earned some bragging rights.Paul Upton-Taylor, Greased Weasel Racing.Comment
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