Originally Posted by
seaball
it's a wierd thing to hear everyone still rejoicing about not having to cut motors anymore, when they now have an entire system of variables to figure out. add to that the lipo of the month program and various firmware upgrades, and it sure seems like more work to me. (barring running modified)
Really? you see people getting the LiPo of the month? You see people doing firmware updates on their ESC's all the time?
I surely don’t see it. And compared to the folks who used to come to races with a box of new stock motors to mix and match the "hot one" then spend an afternoon aligning the heads, truing the com, reaming the bushings, and doing that after each heat... I think there’s no question brushless are less work. when I compare the price of a Brushless w/ ESC to the price of buying "hot" stock motors and all the associated BS tools for them, running brushed is more expensive in time and materials... and overall less fun.
You talk about modernizing the the old technology. Last time people did that it was talking about how to make carbureted engines more efficient, etc... so they worked in computers, vacuum assy's, and made carbs that were so complex they almost never worked right, were a maint headache, and stupid expensive. While the rest of the industry went on to use fuel injection...
I think anyone thinking Brushless aren’t the future are really missing the big picture. R/C should be all about technology advancement, not technology life-support.
While there is always those who will do lipo of the month, and new ESC's that are .005% more efficient or 1/4 gram lighter... that’s most definitely the minority in the hobby, and at the highest levels. An easy way to do good without that is save the time you spend tuning your motor and more time tuning your driving and chassis.
just my .02$