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April 12, 2007

New accessories from TOP Racing

TOP Spring storage box

Tokyo Hobbies Optional Parts (TOP), makers of the the Scythe touring car, have announced the release of 2 new accessories to their already extensive range. First up is this spring storage box, which you can see above, which has been designed to fit up to 24 touring car springs, each in their own neat and visible foam compartment. Also new from TOP is the release of a SuperCap, that comes in 2 versions, for use with 4 cell and seperately 5-6 cell applications, with both sporting a metal heatsink to keep the temperature of the capacitor down.

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April 11, 2007

LRP Brushless & Brushed Cooling Set

LRP have announced the release of their Brushless & Brushed Cooling Set, which is essentially a fan and heatsink combination. As we all know excessive motor temperatures lower the efficiency and the power of a motor and can also lead to permanent damage so with this new offering from LRP you will see a considerable reduction in motor temperature during the race which keeps motor power up. Suitable for all 540-type motors, the set features a blue anodised heatsink and an oversized cooling fan to remove the heat.

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April 11, 2007

LRP Pulsar 3 Competition charger

LRP have announced the release of the successor to the popular Pulsar 2 competition charger, the obviously named Pulsar 3. Bearing a strong resemblance to the Nosram Stealth Evolution charger, this new Pulsar is a fully featured charger that can handle all types of racing cells, including Lipo’s, for use at the highest levels of racing and with 4 World Championship titles for this range of chargers it definitely has a great pedigree.

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April 11, 2007

Much More Drive ESC

Korean company Much More have announced the release of this new electronic speed controller, called the ‘Drive’. Aimed at the sports market, with its forward and reverse, this speedo only works with motors over 17 turns but can accept all types of cells like NiMH, NiCD and Lipo. The ‘Drive’ features automatic setup and has a high temperature safety cut off system that prevents damage through overheating and because its from bling masters Much More you can choose from 2 different colour heatsinks – blue and silver.

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April 5, 2007

Trinity EPIC Shock 19 hand wound motor

Trinity EPIC Shock 19

Trinity have been keeping busy the last few days with a number of new releases and their latest is the EPIC Shock 19 motor which is 19 Turn hand wound spec version of their EPIC Shock modified motor. The EPIC Shock 19 is the first 19 turn spec motor to offer an aluminum endbell for greater cooling and higher motor performance and meets all ARCOR & ROAR specs for this class of motor. Yours for $65.00, Available now.

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April 4, 2007

Trinity Mega Watt battery bars

Trinity have announced that they have updated their best selling silver “Watt Bars” with a new lower resistance, easy to solder, stronger design. The “Mega Watt Bars” now come with pre-bent tabs for the positive and negative speed controller connections.

“Mega Watt Bars” come packaged in 4,5 & 6 cell packages. Each package includes the bars from cell to cell as well as 2 pre-bent solder tabs for the plus and minus battery pack to speed control connection.

Source: Trinity [teamtrinity.com]

March 30, 2007

Eagle Racing comm lathe & more

Eagle Racing comm lathe

Japanese company Eagle Racing have announced today, the release of this small and effective comm lathe that weighs in at only 604grams and has a very small footprint too, meaning it won’t take up much space on your pit table and apart fromt that, it does exactly what every other comm lathe does, and we’re sure it does it well to. Also available from Eagle Racing today is a range of aluminium option parts for the Losi Micro-T, such as wishbones, shock towers, uprights, wishbone mounts and gears some of which you can see below.

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March 30, 2007

Much More motor & armature Box

Following on from our post about the new Much More armature tubes yesterday, comes this cardboard carry case for both those armature tubes, as well as your precious motors. The Much More branded box, is filled with foam for maximium protections and can hold 4 armature tubes, that are supplied, and up to 6 motors.

Source: Much More [much-more.co.kr]