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Old 01-15-2012, 01:19 PM
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Morgoth, these work the way big vehicle shocks work by controlling flow differently based on how fast the piston moves through the oil. With these there should be some level of control between high-speed damping and low speed as well as different damping for rebound from compression. That's the gist, Contingency could explain much better.

I see a challenge in calibrating these. In a 7-8 lb car, what is a fast or slow piston speed? Another issue I see is that for RC, we're always challenged to have a light enough damping to allow movement over small bumps and still enough damping to resist bottoming. With big shocks, usually the high speed damping circuit is the softer one to allow for sharp bump compliance, that would lead to bottoming over jump with our cars.

I'm speculating, the website doesn't appear to be very clear so maybe they've addressed these things.

For years we've had plastic pucks in our shocks. It appears that finally someone has done it.

How do I get some?

Cost = 25 euro for a set of 4 (Team edition), pretty reasonable.
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