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August 22, 2012

HB Flux Pro Competition ESC

The all-new HB Flux Pro Competition ESC allows you to use a huge range of brushless motors battery types and sizes, and you’ll also be able to program a huge variety of settings to completely customize the driving feel and power delivery you get on the track or course. Up to ten different controller profiles can be stored. Of course, if you just want to ‘set it and forget it’, that’s easily accomplished, with several different preset configurations that you can choose from, such as modified racing, stock racing, ‘blinky’ spec mode, practice, off-road, drift and crawler.

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August 21, 2012

Venom Medion Dual Output Charging station

Venom have released their all-new Medion Dual Output Charging station with integrated media player. Venom engineers listened to their Factory Team Pilots and they wanted music. So, they developed a rugged aluminium housed charger with a built-in media player featuring high definition 70mm drivers allowing you to pipe in your favorite tunes from your music player via a standard 1/8th inch stereo input. This charger features 400 watts of power via dual 200-watt circuits allowing for simultaneous charging of two batteries up to 10 amps each. The Medion also features a new IR-Mode™ internal resistance test which will test each cell individually and provides single cell and total pack resistance values so you can see the real-time condition of your LiPo and LiFe battery packs. All this technology is accessible through an easy-to-read red, backlit LCD display.

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August 20, 2012

LRP Dynamic 8 1600kv brushless motor

LRP have released a 1600kv version of their Dynamic 8 brushless motor for 1/8th scale cars. The innovative multislot-winding creates incredible torque while at the same time the motor features improved efficiency over the full rpm range. Less power is lost into heat and that means more power reaches your drivetrain.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

August 16, 2012

Silverback LiPo safety & storage bag

Silverback have released their new LiPo safety charging and storage bag. Made from high performance materials that are not only resistant to hight heat levels, but also to fire. The ideal solution for ensuring safe charging of all LiPo cells, it also doubles up as a compact and safe storage solution for your cells when not in use. Available with two seperate cell storage cases for added protection for your expensive cells, or as just the charge bag.

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August 7, 2012

Core RC LiPo battery packs

Schumacher Racing introduce two new Core RC LiPo battery packs in the form of a 2S 4000mAh 20C and a 1S 3200mAh 25C pack. Starting with the 2S offering the saddle pack is great for 2WD and 4WD off-road cars, sports a height of 23.5mm and comes with charging harness and balancer plug. The second new pack, the 1S 3700mAh 25C is ideal for 1/12th circuit racing, sports dimensions of 93×46.6×18.4mm and is build with a lightweight 3200mAh cell.

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August 2, 2012

Core RC Pace 45 BL speed control

Core RC have introduced their new Pace 45 Brushless speed control. Exclusively designed to suit 1S LiPo running for single cell GT12 classes of racing but also perfectly capable of running with 2S batteries with motors 10.5T and higher. Suitable for sensored or sensorless operation with Zero Timing ‘blinky’ mode as standard but additional timing is programmable via the optional program card. The Pace 45 requires no additional booster for 1S use, just plug and play.

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August 1, 2012

Nosram Comet Evo & HD speedos

Like the new LRP Flow speedo but prefer red then try the Nosram Comet. Following two years of hard work and designed from scratch, the new Comet speedos are based on a completely new platform replacing the three popular Pearl Evo Version 2 speedos. Racers can use the Comet speedos for modified and stock racing, offering a multitude of setup options. Optimised cooling, extremely high power output over the entire RPM range and simple but flexible adjustability are only some of the highlights that make the new Nosram Comet speedos stand out. The unique software, a heavy copper 8-layer powerboard and the compact 2- piece machined aluminium housing have never been seen in a brushless competition speed control before. Its construction from thermo-conductive aluminium makes the case highly efficient for cooling.

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July 27, 2012

Robitronic Razer X10 brushless motors

Robitronic introduce the Razer X10 sensorless brushless motors. Specially designed for the use in RC-Cars the 540-size motors are available as 8T/5820kv, 10T/4680kv and 12T/3940kv variant. With a maximum current of 100A to 155A the motors are able to produce up to 1000W of power. They feature a black anodized and highly ripped heatsink can, red anodized front and rear plates and are usable with up to 5S LiPo batteries depending on the winding.

Source: Robitronic [robitronic.com]