why do some dislike clutches?

sorry for the delay in the reply been busy all weekend. the 1/8th oval racing is 45laps or five minutes which ever the sooner and with the 9xl 51 spur 18 pinion direct drive i would get 62 laps out in practice runs on 4cell flight power 5350mh bearing in mind you are on full throttle 80% of the run. when installed the elektri clutch on the same set up it produced 86 laps track time.
this weekend was a race meeting and after each race and some warm up laps i recharged the lipos and i had used 2900 to 3100 mhs for this track time hope this helps
btw the inner oval barrier length is 85 mts

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by Eastrax RC

sorry for the delay in the reply been busy all weekend. the 1/8th oval racing is 45laps or five minutes which ever the sooner and with the 9xl 51 spur 18 pinion direct drive i would get 62 laps out in practice runs on 4cell flight power 5350mh bearing in mind you are on full throttle 80% of the run. when installed the elektri clutch on the same set up it produced 86 laps track time.
this weekend was a race meeting and after each race and some warm up laps i recharged the lipos and i had used 2900 to 3100 mhs for this track time hope this helps
btw the inner oval barrier length is 85 mts

Interesting, the increase in lap numbers must be due to the motor not drawing as much current to get the truck moving from low speeds/standstill. I have a tekno revo, and the rcm mount too, I may have do some runtime tests with it both ways and see if it does the same as yours. I assume that you are using mech brakes in both situations?

[jhautz]

You could probably get the same extended runtime results results by turning up the punch control or current limiter on the ESC and forget about the clutch.