g12314

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My quarter has been inserted, Player #1 Selected, so ITS ON LIKE DONKEY KONG .

morris

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i was just going thru and reading about the tekin stuff.
the place i race at allows tekins in the spec mode.and im here to tell ya there is no difference running the guy that has the novak esc.
same car..same gearing..same motor...same battery...and he still might be a smuge faster down the staright...

byohnd

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its not all about top end, its about low end. the tekin has more powerful and efficient fets internally and will help on tight tracks. how much will it help, depends on the driver. if you are smooth with the trigger i doudt you would see much.

jgraham37128

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Yes, and put a big sticker on the front like a pack of cigarettes that says this package will give you the same results as a Tekin RS in blinky mode!

The only difference will be the $99.00 missing from your wallet.

squarehead

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I'm not bad-mouthing anyone—it's factual information and the truth. They made a mistake (or not) and it has caused a lot of grief. There are some readers here who can't understand why they are not allowed. v208 or v212, it doesn't matter for a spec class. No track or race promoter should have to hook up EVERY car to a laptop to prove what software they are using. Simple as that. ROAR agrees.

Until Tekin gets in the game with their own true zero timing spec ESC that cannot be programmed, they won't be allowed in the USVTA or other spec classes. Again, that's pretty simple.

And I am not bashing Tekin. I have said before, I have used their electronics since 1984, and use them in every one of my cars except my Trans Am chassis. I stand by the product, but I would be lying if I said I wasn't completely disappointed in the v208 issues that surfaced.



End of story. Anyone who can't accept the facts should go race in another class and stop complaining about things they have no control over.

DARKSIDE

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thank you...as long as you hand it to me...it will look nice to the 3rd place I got last year

I will and bringing company...and not just the wifey and kids

more like Space Invaders....Im swooping in and destroy the competition

my ankle...oh snap...he got the nail in

well if money is an issue, buy a Speed Passion Cirtix...use it and sell ot to me

DARKSIDE

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yeah!!!! what he said

trerc

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No dude, The dead horse is allowing the RS/ RS Pro is USVTA. That decision was made BEFORE the whole 208 thing, the 208 thing was just the nail in the coffin.

You got that shit right, Hey Tekin, you reading this!? God bless the RS but it isn't welcome everywhere and they are trying to close more doors on it daily, if you can't beat em ban em! Yea whatever...

Really? Can you actually prove this

Just tell me where I need send my $99...

Scottrik

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If your complaint is RULES CHANGES you'd best clear the hell out of TC and straight into USVTA. The USVTA technical rules were absolutely stable (i.e. NO changes) for over 2 years. Further, the most recent change racers were given NINE MONTHS notice. In TC the weight has changed yearly, obsoleting a fair bit of equipment, and the bodies are being argued about right up until pretty much every major championship event. And more.

FURTHER, USVTA is a comparatively new class still and came into being right at the outset of major technological changes (the advent of brushless tech and LiPo tech) in how we race RC. Just like TC, changes had to be made at some point to accomodate these new technologies. That was the change that was effected in USVTA summer 2008. So no "point" awarded to either class in this regard.

And being a new class, I'd say USVTA can be allowed a little manipulation here and there to get the competitive balance where it oughta be. What the hell is TC's excuse for rules changes...that class has been around dog's years now, you'd think they'd get it figured out eventually


The programmable Tekin (and SPX, and BD, and Novak, and...get over it, it ain't just Tekin) was not going to be legal LOOOOONG before the v.208 "mistake" fiasco so that has nothing to do with it...it's a straw man argument. The reason the programmable esc's are not legal (again, NO ONE'S programmable esc) is as much perception as anything else. If everyone is running non-programmable esc's there's no need to look for blinky-dinky lights, no need to know everyone's blinky-winky secret flasher code, NO POSSIBILITY OF "MISTAKES", and no one perceives that the reason they got beaten is because someone had a super-pinky-blinky esc.

Get over it. Accept that certain equipment is or is not going to be accepted and either race the class or move on. No one is holding your feet to the fire. Either way, get your facts straight before you make arguments. You're debating from a position that demonstrates you've either been mis-informed, mis-understood something along the way, or are plain making stuff up to support your "premise".

Scottrik

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What Tekin's v.208 "mistake" fiasco HAS done is probably made some clubs re-think decisions where they WERE going to allow programmable esc's if they were in tinky-winky-blinky mode but saw that if a mfr. like Tekin can make a boo-boo what's to say no one else has made a similar faux-pas and changed their mind. Or racers make a "mistake", or.... Or at least it probably re-opened an acrimonious debate in these clubs.

DARKSIDE

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well...Im going to work now....so here is the skinny....

laptops are bad for r/c racing, as a whole(stock racing at least)

if you can program it, so can somebody else

Tekin isnt the only outlawed esc, Black Dimond got banned its 1st time out(Robk)

the esc's that are available, will not be a waste of money due to the fact that most ppl, even Tekin loyals, agree a sour taste about the blinky mode. So that should allow whatever esc you run in VTA to work in TC when and if you want to run something different.

the esc's on the VTA list are as cheap as $53 with warranty

before summer several other esc companies will be on the 2012 ROAR rules as well, the USVTA is just ahead of the curve.

thanks for listening....by the way...if you want to talk about coming around to race legal....

I have a Tekin RS, (4)GTB's, (2) Havok Pros, (2) LRP SPX( that I cant run, not even locally, cause Im a "fast" guy that why I had to BUY the freakin Tekin and the Havok)...and thats in TC or VTA

so lets see it this way....I spent $200 on a Tekin that Im selling for $100, 2 SPX's $200 for one $250 for the other that Ive be outlawed to run that are for sale as well, and $300 GTB(as a system new) that I ran in 3 different off-road classes...that until recent event wasnt worth anything...lol...

and guess what...IM HAPPY AS HE77....man I love the VTA class

trerc

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Personally, I think we'd have a better chance of getting Rob to add the Mazda 6 speed to the USVTA approved bodies list before we could get the Tekin RS in the door...

DARKSIDE

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at least its a Mazda

trerc

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That's way too cheap, Used, The RS Pro will easily sell for $150- $160 and the RS will get $125 all day long, I'll guarantee it. Sell the Hotwire separate for $25.

trerc

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Thats debatable too, just ask a "hobbyist"