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Ask Cubby, A Weekly Q & A Session, Version 06.09.2010
Welcome back to yet another fabulous edition of your letters, and my butchering of the English language…. 🙂 ========== “To the gents at Bigsquid, I have a Turnigy Lipo that is all puffed up. What should I do with it? Collin – Bonnyrigg UK” Cubby- Hey what’s up Collin? Thanks for writing in. So you have a puffed Lipo and you don’t know what to [...]
RC Myths- Fact or Fiction – LiPo Car Starting!
Ever hear that you can jump start your 1:1 car with an rc car Lipo battery? Well, so have we, and like the all American good guys were are, we decided to put the rumor to the test, so you don’t have to! 🙂 First we drained the battery on a full size Ford Taurus. We did this by charging a [...]
THE Cub Report, Version 05.31.2010
Welcome to yet another uber edition of the rc worlds most maligned weekly column. 🙂 Btw, you guys have been seriously slack’n with your hate mail lately, or maybe I’ve been slacking on flip’n out on people. Maybe it’s a bit of both? Any which way, you aren’t cool unless you’re spewing the hate to cubby at BigSquidRC dot com. [...]
ASK Cubby, A Weekly Q&A Session, Version 05.27.2010
ASK Cubby, A Weekly Q&A Session, Version 05.27.2010 We get letters, all kinds of letters here at BigSquid…. ========== “Just an FYI, in todays CUB report you wrote “Jess Alessi” when its actually Jeff Alessi. The JBRL race was at ARC Raceway in SoCal… I was sitting next to Jeff in the pits on sat and hes a good driver for sure. Anyways, just [...]
THE Cub Report, Version 05.24.2010
How about that Eli Tomac? Ya, ok, you don’t know who he is, but he’s got a famous dad and he won the first AMA pro motocross race he ever entered. Tomac races on the Geico Honda team and won the AMA motocross season opener at Hangtown on Saturday, beating such biggies as Christophe Pourcel (whos sponsored by Traxxas!) and [...]
Discharging a 30C LiPo at 30C!
Note: We did this, so you don’t have to! Seriously, do NOT try this at home! The results are very unpredictable, and you can even hear us scramble a little bit in the video. Something like this can turn into a very dangerous situation. Now that that is out of the way, on to the good stuff! Each time we’ve done [...]
Lipo Discharge Teaser
I have been mentioning for a little bit now that we were going to give the readers what they want. A 30C LiPo discharged at 30C. Seems like that should work right? Well, the write up and video should be available Friday.. but for now.. here’s a quick video still. ‘There is nothing to see here.. move along!’
ASK Cubby, A Weekly Q & A Session, Version 05.06.2010
“Dear Brian, First let me take the time to say, I really enjoyed the two battery shootouts. They were well written and I think by the second one you really have it nailed down with good testing criteria for each battery and being able to replicate situations so the testing for each is equal. One thing that really kind [...]
THE Cub Report, Version 05.03.2010
Geezuss I’m getting tired of lame “teaser” press releases. A fine example of this was the tease put out by our broken English speaking friends at Kyosho America a couple weeks ago. The promise was “Something BIG” was coming from them. What did it turn out to be? Well the “BIG” news was that Kyosho America was opening up a [...]
THE Cub Report, Version 04.26.2010
First off this week, huge congrats go out to Scotty Ernst for putting on one hell of a short course race at Trackside Hobbies in Wisconsin. Scotty is arguably one of the top race promoters in this hobby, and widely considered the best race announcer walking the planet. Scott’s race drew around 250 (yes, two hundred and fifty!!) entries this [...]
ASK Cub Reporter, A Weekly Q & A Session, Version 04.21.2010
“What are the max. charge rates for the batteries used for this competition? 1C? 2C? 5C? Recharging time is a consideration for many users and may be the deciding factor between similar-performing brands. Regards.. Bob” We shot Bob a personal reply, but his is a good question that perhaps other readers would like the answer to. During the Big Squid RC Lipo [...]
THE Cub Report, Version 04.19.2010
Are you a fan of street art (graffiti)? Well, I’m not a big fan of graffiti, but I truly enjoy Banksy’s works. This week the new Banksy film “Exit Through The Gift Shop” premiered in New York City and LA, and starts showing in Chi-town on the 30th. Google image search Banksy for some examples of his work, I hope [...]
Pro-Line Bulldog Body Illegal says ROAR
Ok, recently I have been ranting about ROAR and their infinite wisdom over scale realistic bodies. But now they seem to have gone and gotten the whole RC world in an uproar! And I’m not sure I can even take all the credit! ROAR recently announced that the Pro-Line Racing Bulldog body will not be legal to [...]
THE Cub Report, Version 04.11.2010
Does ROAR have a beef with Pro-Line? They must have, because their recent ruling against the new PL Bulldog buggy bodies makes no sense otherwise. 8th scales have always looked Martian- they’ve never had a full size counterpart to emulate. To deem the Bulldog “illegal” because it doesn’t look realistic enough is a farce, and a waste of time and [...]
ASK Cubby, Version 04.07.2010- A Weekly Q & A Session
This week instead of posting questions that readers have submitted, I’ll be doing things a bit differently. The Big Squid RC Second Lipo Battery Shootout has been a ginormous hit, and with it’s success comes questions from those pesky message board pundits. So here’s some of the criticism off the message boards, and the reasons for why we conducted the [...]
