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I have a nice old vintage boomerang and a wild dagger. I have a load of old batteries and a shonky fast charger. They are both on MSC and the boomers motor is shot. So, ive been having a look at new stuff but I'm confused. I'm not looking for mega speed, just some reliable bashing. Is it worth me going brushless? Any cheap sec/motor combos that are worth owning? Is it worth going lipo? Cells in general are cheaper now and chargers seem daft cheap (unless they are rubbish). I just need it explained (or just recomended) from the point of view of someone who just needs cheap, slightly better than stock rs540 spec, upgrades from the 80's tat in these models. I don't want to invest a fortune but I need two batteries I may as well change to lipo? If I need a motor and my msc's are junk I may as well swap to brushless? Thanks. (Pics coming
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ianw
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I made the move to LiPo a couple of years ago and never looked back, mega run times compared to the old technology and no drop in power during the runs.
You will need a decent charger, I have an IMAX B6 which does LiPo, NIMH and NiCad, you will also need a charging sack or case.
Brushless is great, no maintenance and more efficient, if you didn't need new ESC's I would say just LiPo would give your vintage Tamiya's a great boost bit if you need to buy all new kit.
Your other option is keep the silvercans and get something like a Hobbyking 1060 ESC, cheap and do the job, you should get over 40 minutes of runtime that way!
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I made the move to LiPo a couple of years ago and never looked back, mega run times compared to the old technology and no drop in power during the runs. You will need a decent charger, I have an IMAX B6 which does LiPo, NIMH and NiCad, you will also need a charging sack or case. Brushless is great, no maintenance and more efficient, if you didn't need new ESC's I would say just LiPo would give your vintage Tamiya's a great boost bit if you need to buy all new kit. Your other option is keep the silvercans and get something like a Hobbyking 1060 ESC, cheap and do the job, you should get over 40 minutes of runtime that way! Funny enough, over the last day ive also come to the conclusion the hobbywing 1060 is what I need. They also do a twin lead version for my wild dagger. I think ill get two, (I'm also ordering two knew rere tamiya kits, funny how this happens) so may order a couple more they are so cheap. Ive decided to stick with stock is motors so I don't need mega esc's, although still tempted to put the 17x2 in the boomerang. I realised I just don't need brushless. My cells though are all shot. I may go lipo, it would make sense, but I don't think they will fit in the dagger. May go in the boomerang and will probably go in the hybrid tamiya mess I'm going to build, but I need batteries that will fit everything so I need to check. I used to have shelves full of tamiya. I had about 20 of the first 50. Sold most of them unfortunately, now I'm looking at maybe getting the ones I didnt have before. Getting super tempted by a bruiser but they cost more than my work van did! At this rate I'm going to end up going 2.4ghz too.
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Sounds similar to what I ended up going with my old tamiya stuff...was tempted by brushless, but you can pickup decent brushed motors for next to nothing! I've got The Frog on one of the old silver cans and it flies on lipo..
2.4ghz I can also recommend...one controller with memories for different cars and much better battery runtime
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Last Edit: Aug 8, 2017 20:52:33 GMT by sarkie83
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It's more than 5 years since I had my helicopters out, but even then the brushless + lipo was so cheap it made no sense to use anything else. Imax intelligent charger, DX6i transmitter, clone "orange" recievers, and a plug-in low battery alarm so batteries didn't get over-discharged in use.
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