Hobbyking

[alanwheeldon]

Anyone got any experience with this company, especially there Turnigy products?

I can get:

2, lipo saddle 2c 5100 60c batteries
Charger
6.5 sensored motor and ESC
Metal gear 0.13s servo

All that for £140 plus delivery

That seems really cheap to me, would you have to pay import tax from America and are Turnigy products any good?

[luniemiester]

The turnigy nanotech batteries are excellent - far better than my Brca approved ones and a 1/3 the price

Been using the turnigy 7.5 motor with no problems since march - the red can ones are the later types but basically a reedy copy as I'm led to believe

The 120a esc is basically a copy of the new v3.1 hobbywing esc

[Axeboy]

Ive used them a little and have a Turnigy ESC and motor in my dex210.

All seems fine, but im not a serious user, just enjoy the build and some messing about.

Delivery has been quick etc, not had any issues.

[Crazy L]

I use nanotechs in my helicopters and my LSTe. Never missed a beat.

[terry.sc]

Originally Posted by alanwheeldon

would you have to pay import tax from America?

Every time, you are guaranteed to get hit with duty from the US, look at adding 20-25% to the price, plus the processing fee which will be £6.50-15 depending on who is delivering it.

You could try their Hong Kong warehouse, but as the Hong Kong post office has now banned all lipo batteries from airmail it will have to be sent surface mail which will take 1-2 months.

Hobbyking has a UK warehouse as well, it might not have as much stock as their Hong Kong warehouse but it's likely it will be the only way to get lipos from them in the future.

[mark christopher]

Originally Posted by luniemiester

The turnigy nanotech batteries are excellent - far better than my Brca approved ones

Im interested to know how you can make that claim, as the only way to know for sure would have been to try them all!
how would you recommend a driver using your "claim" enters a BRCA sanctioned meeting?

[luniemiester]

Mark - I have 2 sets of Brca legal batteries and 2 sets of nanotechs - they are rated the same punch and mah but the nanotechs give far better performance and run time than my Orion or intellect sets

As for Brca meetings I don't give a monkeys as I've never been pulled about them at any of the Brca meetings I've done (if they did moan I'd put the others in but that's the only reason I use them apart from testing). The fact that the Brca insist on a list that meets their criteria which when I last checked is the same as ROAR rules which nanotech are approved for so personally I think the Brca should look at the rule again to allow equivalent IFMAR federation approved batteries or just change it to any hard case lipo only and be done with it.

Most people who I race against run nanotechs - the battery doesn't make us better or worse than each other it's our lack if skill that's the determining factor!

The moment you put a battery on the Brca list it just pushes the prices up IMO!!

[AC199]

Originally Posted by luniemiester

The turnigy nanotech batteries are excellent - far better than my Brca approved ones and a 1/3 the price

I've put the important part of the first fellas quote in bold so you wont miss it Mark...

Originally Posted by mark christopher

Im interested to know how you can make that claim, as the only way to know for sure would have been to try them all!
how would you recommend a driver using your "claim" enters a BRCA sanctioned meeting?

Same way as everyone else does, by simply entering with the Turnigy ones and relying on the simple fact that no one with half a brain gives a shit, and the BRCA bods dont check half the time. If they are ROAR approved, they've been through checks and have passed, why does the BRCA need to check them as well?

Sooner people realise that a lipo is a lipo is a lipo these days, the better the RC world will be. Companies might then stop gouging the shit out the club racer, and people selling second hand lipos on the forums will realise that when they sell Gens Ace or Turnigy Lipos they wont ask twice the retail cost of brand new ones for them either.

Quite why anyone would pay for expensive lipos these days is beyond me...

AC

[alanwheeldon]

Well I don't have any equipment yet or even a car but saw these as a good deal but I'm still not too clued up about the electrics in this hobby yet. I don't want to buy them though if I can't use them at races?

Would I be better off spending twice the money from a UK store?

[leelar]

have a look at www.giantshark.co.uk/ the have gens ace(BRCA legal) lipos hobbywing speedos and a variety of chargers reasonable prices