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Hot Rod Anything! The Bomber R/C
Hot Rod
|April 2017
This thing roosts! It also has enough suspension travel to land on its feet from a couple of feet in the air, goes 18 to 20 mph with a 3S battery, and still makes a pretty good rockcrawler.
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So what happened? Lithium-battery technology has improved over the last 10 years, allowing the guys at companies like Axial to create a new breed of high strung R/C vehicles. The key is the discharge rate or how quickly power can go from storage to the electric motor. Lithium Polymer (LiPo) batteries can do this at several times the speed of the old nickel-metal design. The result is lightning-fast responsiveness and a lot more overall speed.
This story is from the April 2017 edition of Hot Rod.
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