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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]

March 29, 2007

Much More Armature holders

Continuing on with our slow news day we have some more not very exciting but still rather essential accessories that, in this case, are great for electric racers. From Much More come these clear holders, which are sold in a pack of 5, and do exactly what they are meant to do, hold your armatures safe and secure so you can put them away in your tool box.

Source: Much More [muchmore.co.kr]

March 25, 2007

Hybrid perfect brush setter

Setting the brushes correctly in your motor is essential to avoid unnecessary damage to the motor and improve overall performance and so Hybrid have released these brush setters. Coming in a number of anodised colours the ‘perfect brush setter’ set aids in the setting and further running in of new brushes and is an essential tool for all electric racers that run brushed motors.

Source: ARK [ark-inc.jp]

March 25, 2007

Team Checkpoint Pro Charger

Team Checkpoint, the company that recently signed Marc Rheinard away from Team Orion, has released this rather cool look Pro Charger. A small unit, this charger is packed full of features like more charging modes, LiPo compatibility and new motor test with two break-in modes, 1-step and a 4-step mode with programmable voltage and cool-off times!

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