I got my first breakage yesterday, I hit the same drain again, this time going slightly faster (it was dry) but I had allready started turning away from it and just clipped it with the rear wheel, the leverage from hitting that far out broke the left rear hub :-( a new pair of rear hubs was a lot cheaper than I was expecting so its not too bad.
I got my dad to give me a lift to the model shop to get the rear hub and while I was there I picked up a set of Medial Pro Tarmac II tyres they only had them premounted on yellow rims instead of the cool black Hyper7 ones I got for for the Road rages, but the tyres are 10 times stiffer than the Crappy Proline Road Rages I was having problems with, so hopefully my handling issues will be over and at least I know what colour my scale body will be now.
Its been ages since I last saw my dad, he is into Electric boats and planes too, so I ran the buggy which impressed him, then showed him my Eagletree and what it did, which astounded him completely. He told me of a datalogger he used in his electrical engineering years ago that was the size of a desktop PC, with less than 1% of the eagletree's power, it cost his company £14k at a time when his skilled wages where £1200 per year inc overtime, technology has certainly moved on, here is some eagletree graphs for my buggy on its 12 sanyo RC2400s.
I showed him how low my voltage is getting under load and told him how good the recent LiPos are under load, we use 1st generation LiPos in our smaller electric planes, He said that as he hadn't seen me since my birthday he would buy me a set, they where out of stock at the model shop but we ordered some in and hopefully tomorow I will be the proud owner of a Flightpower 4s 4350 pack, I'll post a pic and some new graphs with that pack when I've got it set up for the new tyres and lighter pack.
Wish me luck, I should have about double the power and 50% more top speed, I hope I can still manage it.