Originally Posted by
SlowerOne
Why does everyone want to change the 12th Rules for batteries and motors? It's a stable class undergoing a revival. Just look at TC, and the LiPo/BL activists there bulldozing through their LiPo/BL demands and causing chaos in the class world-wide; that's been so successful - not!!
The vast majority of drivers like 10.5/13.5/17.5, for which four reasonable cells (and the new Orion SHO cells here in Europe save 40 grammes on weight as well as being good voltage!) give an easy eight minute race. It seems EnerG and Orion cells are robust and easy to use, and need no more maintenance than NiCad used to.
Play around with anything you like, but please, for the sake of the silent majority who love their 12th for its simplicity and low cost, leave it alone. The thought of being carved apart until we bleed by ill-thought changes not supported by all the Associations, like TC, is not a good one.
I agree. I have been running the same 2 energy packs since the first batch reached US shores. I run each pack 2-3 time a day and have not seen any degredation in the packs since they were new. I am sure the voltages went up and the runtime went down a bit, but they make 8min easy with no drop in performance. I agree that bl is the way to go due to the low maitenance, but I don't see the lipo or whatever is any easier to care for then NIMH. I get to the track, discharge the packs to .9 then balance to .7 then charge. at the end of the day I put them away til next week.