Originally Posted by
CypressMidWest
I love you Mario, but there's nothing gayer than having to buy a different ESC for every class you race.
If an ESC can't be updated or tailored to different classes in this day and age, then it's a joke.
Plus, you don't necessarily have to have a programmable speedo to cheat. There are tons of people that could program a few degrees of timing advance into any speedo on the market, all while the light blinks. The same guys could do it on a non-adjustable speedo like the old spheres. It's already been done, and NO reasonable amount of pre or post race tech will be able to find it.
That's the biggest problem. It is just plain impossible to uninvent technology, and that is what blinky is effectively trying to do.
Far better to keep it open, that way no one can be accused of cheating in the first place (as well as it being kinder on the motors, making good batteries less relevant etc.). If speeds need limiting, just do it with higher wind motors, or even go to 380 size.
Back on subject, the differences between speedos in blinky is small in general. Motors and cells are now far more important again.
Trev