Team-Powers have released a new 6200mAh 7.4V LiPo battery for Touring Cars and Offroad applications. Featuring a continuous discharge capacity of 60C, this competition pack features a hard case for impact protection and is supplied with bullet connectors.
Source: Team-Powers [team-powers.com]
Moore-Speed, the new brand of 2006 ISTC World Champion Andy Moore, have released their first product, this 5600mAh 50C LiPo battery. Ideal for 1/10th Touring Car, as well as 2WD Off Road, this pack is aimed at the competition market and was used by Andy himself to win the last round of the British TC Nationals as well as finishing 4th at this summer’s European Championships in France. Better suited to Modified classes of racing due to its increased run time it features a matt finish hard case for crash protection and comes supplied with either bullet connectors or pre wired with a deans connector.
View the pre wired version here
KO Propo have released a number of new products including the new PC-101L charger/discharger that can take car of all your battery charging and discharging needs. This light and compact AC/DC charger will charge NiCD, NiMH, Lipo, Life & Pb types of batteries and includes banana plus to Tamiya style plug, Tamiya to Dean’s style and Tamiya to Rx pack plugs for most of your charging needs. A high visibility LCD panel allows you to easily monitor what’s going on, while an aluminium heat sink and built in fan keep everything cool. KO have also released the BLZ-350 brushless ESC for sensor or sensor-less motors. Able to be configured for forward + brake, forward + brake + reverse or forward + reverse, it comes set for use with 2S LiPo but can be used with NiMH/NiCd 6 cell or LiPo/LiFe 2 cell.
The Boca Bearing Company has put together a full line of aftermarket and upgrade replacement bearing kits and individual bearings for brushless motors. Three different bearings versions are available in pre-packaged kits. The Econo Power ABEC 5 line of bearings comes with stainless steel races and balls that are ideal for backyard bashers or budget minded racers. The Ceramic Lightning ABEC 5 line of bearings are supplied with high speed ceramic balls and stainless steel races suitable for club racers. The Ceramic Orange Seal ABEC 7 line comes with race-ready, high precision ceramic balls and stainless steel races with non-contact rubber seals perfect for pro racers. To make things easy, customers are able to search by their specific make and model from the website to see a selection of kits available. Aftermarket bearing kits are available for all of the most popular RC Brushless Motors such as E-Flite, Emaxx, Novak, Mamba, Castle Creations and many more.
Source: Boca Bearings [bocabearings.com]
X Factory and Ellis Stafford have announced the newest E-Speed part, a heatsink and fan mount to fit all X-Cars with 4-Gear transmissions. The heatsink is a blue aluminium part that perfectly matches all the other E-Speed and Dirtz Dialed Partz from X Factory and looks great with a D.D.P. motor plate. Heat from the motor goes into the motor plate and the finned heatsink greatly aids cooling of the entire unit. All X Factory parts play well together, and the new E-Speed heatsink fits perfectly with the existing D.D.P. transmission brace. The new part also mounts a 25 mm fan in position to blow directly onto the car’s motor. The two cooling aids, heatsink and fan, are especially important in stock motor racing where modern brushless stock motors are often geared to the moon. Ellis designed the heatsink himself, as with all E-Speed parts, and like everything from X Factory, the new part is complete with a dialed fan and all the necessary hardware.
More new chargers from Speed Power, the first is the Esprit A9 Capacitive Touch Button System charger is a 11 to 18V DC charger what allows for a maximum charging power of 200W and a maximum discharging power of 25W. Able to charge 1 to 18 NiXX, 1 to 6 LiXX and 2V to 24V Pb batteries the charger also sports a discharge function with up to 5A and an integrated balancer. The Esprit A10 Professional Intelligent Balance charger is an even more powerful device as it charges up to 27 NiXX and up to 8 LiXX cells with a charging rate as high as 7A. Both chargers feature intelligent and easy to navigate menus and two line LCD displays.
View the full specifications here
Following on from the release of their A3 and B1 chargers, Speed Power have released the latest additions to the Esprit line, the A6 and A8 Pro. The A8 Pro balance charger and discharger is another DC powered unit wit a maximum charge power of 80W, 10W for discharge. The current ranges are from 0.1 to 6.0A for charging and 0.1 to 2.0A for discharging and it can handle up to 15 NiMh cells and 6 lithium cells. The A6, also a DC charger and discharger, has a max charge power of 50W and a discharge power of 5W, while the charge current is from 0.1 o 5.0A and 0.1 to 1.0A for discharge. Both chargers feature a 2 line LCD display and an easy to navigate functions menu.
LRP have announced that they are sending a rule proposal for ‘Boost 0 speed controls’ to all the important RC federations to help create a new standard for this setting in all ESCs. As there was no exact definition of ‘Boost 0’, the drivers couldn’t be sure that the ‘Boost 0’ speed controls from the different manufacturers were on the same performance level. With the LRP rule proposal, the definite technical meaning of ‘Boost 0’ is now clearly defined for the very first time. Other manufacturers also get a firm base to ensure that ‘Boost 0’ speed controls of different manufacturers can be allowed in one class, because they are based on the same preconditions. Speed controllers eligible for ‘Boost 0’ classes must provide zero timing advance, along with disabling advanced motor control functions (i.e. Boost, Cheat Mode, Turbo, etc). When the ‘Boost 0’ profile is enabled, it shall be indicated by a blinking LED while the ESC is armed and in neutral position. The commutation sequence is limited to ‘6-step’ type and commutation of the speed control must follow the motors hall sensor signals 1:1, e.g. no shifted timing (no matter if advanced or retarded) is allowed at any RPM.
Source: LRP [lrp.cc]
