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Joined: Jun 2013
Posts: 264
Well im back to being a 12th Padawan
placed an order for a yokomo r12c3, tyres, protoform TR12, hobbywing just stock esc and a muchmore 6.6v life receiver pack, already have a 12th servo and 1 cell lipos.
got a GM 10.5T motor and a reedy sonic mach 2 13.5t motor as well.
placed an order for a yokomo r12c3, tyres, protoform TR12, hobbywing just stock esc and a muchmore 6.6v life receiver pack, already have a 12th servo and 1 cell lipos.
got a GM 10.5T motor and a reedy sonic mach 2 13.5t motor as well.
I just put the battery one one side of the t-bar (lengthwise down the long axis of the car), and the electronics on the other side. It works pretty well. Alternately, you can get some 1s saddle packs from Speedzone, where each half is about the size of two sub-C NiMH batteries.
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Sadly, t bar cars were made virtually obsolete by the advent of lipos. Pretty much everybody has switched over to the side spring design. You can offset a lipo on one side of the tbar but doing so makes the car very imbalanced. You can space a lipo up and over the tbar, but doing so makes the CG so high that the car will handle badly. If you want to run the tbar style car, at this point your only viable option would be to get a saddle pack 1 cell lipo. To my knowledge, only one company offers such a battery. That company is Speedzone, owned by Gavin Creado. He's got a thread on the team and company page. These days and because of the lipo batteries, tbar 1/12th scale cars are hardly even seen in competition. Sad, but true.



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