P questions

[TRUCKPULL]

Terry

Also at the very top page J-2
A ‘pack’ is defined as the cell(s) wired in series or parallel or any wiring combination that is used to provide electrical power to the speed control for the purpose of driving the electrical motor(s).

So when you have all your batteries connected together in your boat in what ever configuration you want except for the last connection to you ESC or ESC's.
This is considered you battery pack for that boat.

For a "Q" boat say you want 6S2P you could use 2 sets of 3 -2S packs in series, then parallel them together to plug into your ESC
This is the point that voltage will be taken to make sure it compiles with the voltage rules.
This setup is your battery pack for that boat.

Larry

[T.S.Davis]

Got it. Makes sense to me now. By "sense" I mean where the rule set came from. There are a whole bunch of rules in our book that came from guys that weren't racing FE when written or by guys that don't race FE any longer. Randall owns and has raced 2 FE boats that I've ever seen. One was RTR and the other was built by Reesor.

There is no real justification for the single source on twins. Makes it more complicated for no reason. It was written based on the fear of something that didn't exist then and still doesn't exist 10 years later. A speedo that could rewire itself internally such that the voltage doubled via the packs. If someone was that hell bent on cheating they could find a way around the voltage. Preventing a cheater from inventing a new way to cheat is impossible...................... because he's a cheater.

[Fluid]

So Terry.....when are you going to officially propose changing that rule to one which makes sense???




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[T.S.Davis]

So Terry.....when are you going to officially propose changing that rule to one which makes sense???.

bahaha I'm just a pee on. Way over my pay grade.

Right now I'm just gathering up "what fers".

We still plan to host our Cup race but under this new rule set. Our gang has to decide which rules we plan to allow exceptions to and if those exceptions create safety concerns. Safety is one of those no go zones. The twin P and single power source as written don't increase safety in any way but I'm thinking we'll leave both as-is for the cup. Then maybe allow P twins on twin sources at the club level.

We're already going to have to define M Spec for the event. We're going to have to state a policy on 1/8 motors for the event. We also have to define 10th scale for the event. That's a lot of dAfine'n. I can't see having a 4 page flier. That's nuts. We may to have a link to the rule set on-line. PIA. I need to see if I can jam it all onto the back side of the flier.

[Fluid]

Easy to do Terry, use size zero font......



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