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Venom has a new transport case, and it’s a hot one, with looks to match the function. The Transport Race Case features all kinds of pockets and drawers to help you carry everything you need and keep it neatly organized. The top portion of the bag features a built in tool organizer. The top drawer is large enough to hold [...]
LRP has a couple new chargers for both types of people, beginners and non-beginners. The Element charger is useful for charging 4 – 8 cell NiMHs and NiCads at selectable rates of 1, 2, or 4 amps. It takes it’s power from good ol’ AC outlets. The Element Pro adds 1S – 3S LiPo/LiFe charging capability with a cell balancer [...]
TrakPower is adding some big capacity to their line of hard-cased LiPo batteries. Three new batteries are now available: a 2S/6200 mAh, 2S/5600 mAh, and a 4S/5600 mAh. TrakPower claims a continuous discharge rate of 60c for the 5600s and 50c for the 6200. All of them come with Deans Ultra connectors and balance plugs preinstalled. MSRPs are $120 for [...]
Why carry around a Fluke Multimeter when you can toss Hobbico‘s tiny Pro-Series Lithium Voltmeter into your tool bag and promptly loose it? Well, that might be a reason, but seriously folks, do you need a big multimeter just to check the voltage on your LiPos, LiFes, and Li-Ion batteries? I really don’t think so. The Pro LVM can give [...]
Budget radios are everywhere these days and HPI is not one to be left out of the fun. Their TF-20U radio, which has been the 2.4 GHz pack-in radio for many of their RTRs, is now available separately. Being a budget radio it’s not big on features, having only 2 channels, a steering dual rate switch, throttle and steering trims, [...]
Robitronic is ready to juice up your glow plugs with more power than you’ll likely know what to do with. Their new LiPo Glowstarter is said to provide a full days worth of glow igniting goodness from the 3.7v, 1200 mAh LiPo battery. The ignitor has a built in voltage regulator that brings that 3.7v down to a more appropriate [...]
The Futaba mothership is showing off a new entry level radio. Now I don’t read Japanese, but from various other sources I was able to cobble together that the new 3PRKA will be a 3 channel, 2.4 GHz radio with some minor features such as trims and servo reversing, possibly more. It’s going to be targeted at RTR owners that [...]
Is your charger too complicated? Does it have too many buttons and 70+ menu options? Are you saying to yourself “why can’t this be simple?” I’m not… I like complicated stuff, it makes unexpected results from not knowing what you’re doing more exciting. But if you are a simpleton person that likes to keep things simple, Reedy might have a [...]
Novak has finally come to their senses and put their NovaGear App on the Android platform. It’s the same thing as the iPhone/iPod/iPad version, so you can expect all the same features but now on a phone that is actually capable of NOT dropping calls (HA! TAKE THAT IPHONE FANBOYS & BRIAN!). For the unaware in the group, the NovaGear app [...]
Rogue Element Components is prepping a new limited edition part to add some interior detail to the Tamiya Sand Scorcher. The Sand Scorcher dash kit consists of aluminum and polystyrene parts, and high quality printed details. REC says the kit is quick and easy to assemble. It is also setup to accept an LED light to provide back-lighting of the [...]
So what is this “iPhone” thing everybody is talking about? And why does everybody want to create an “app” for it? Team Associated is also jumping on the “bandwagon” with their recently released “RC Cheat Sheets” “app”. With this app you can keep track of “vehicle setups”. It’s useful for electric and “nitro powered” off-road, on-road, oval, “and” pan car [...]
Speed Passion has finally released their popular R/C Car A1 app for Android mobile phones. The iPhone version of the app, which was released some time ago has also received an update to fix some bugs and spelling issues. Just to refresh your memory, this app provides you with all kinds of tools, such as a lap timer/stop watch, gear ratio [...]
Savox SB-750TG Digital Servo Review From: Savox USA Review by Cubby. Last week I had the pleasure of reviewing one of the most uber servos on the market, the Hitec 7950, this week I’m testing a servo from a little known company called Savox. Savox may be little known to the masses, but they make a lot of servos (and brushless [...]
Hitec HS-7950TH Review From: Hitec RCD Direct Link: Hitec HS-7950TH Review by Cubby.So you drive an uber 8th scale or monster truck, and you are the type of person that only puts the best into your baby. There are dozens of choices in high end servos, but you don’t know which one to buy. Well, here’s Cubby’s quick and dirty review of [...]
DuraTrax is adding some new features to one of their popular and affordable Onyx AC/DC peak chargers. The new Onyx 235 takes the 230 and adds some essential new features. Most importantly the 235 now features a built in LiPo cell balancer for properly charging and maintaining your LiPo batteries. The 235 also increases both the cell count and amp [...]
