Mamba XL ver2?

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by snellemin

How about covering the crossdrilled wires with bacon? In effect you get smoked crispy bacon upon a failure and will keep the Mason's happy.

True, masons love bacon.

Originally Posted by BrianG

See, now you guys are overthinking the smoke thing. I'm telling you, it's the friction from the smoke that causes problems. The correct answer is usually the simple one.

By the way, red items don't go any faster, they just appear that way because the color grabs your attention. It's all about perspective.

What DOES make things go faster is a flame graphic (sticker/decal/paint). That has been proven a number of times in controlled, repeatable tests. The reason behind this is a little more complex though. What happens is the various colors of the flame graphic cause thermal variances just above it which positively interact with the airflow from the object in motion. This redirects turbulence in a controlled manner to provide the least amount of air resistance when traveling at high speed. Of course, this only works on a planet with a yellow sun and when it is at an ideal angle at noon in a narrow temperature range, so changes to the flame orientation, color gradients, and flame tongue curvature must be made for maximum efficiency depending on geographical location, temperature, and time of day. Fortunately, the design of the common flame graphics are such that they work well in a variety of locations; you just don't get the maximum benefit as you would with a specifically tuned graphc. In the R/C world, our vehicles are scaled down by X amount, which means the variances in flame efficiency are X order of magnitude less (efficiency variances scales down by model scale), so even a "generic" flame graphic has almost the same performance as a perfectly tuned one. Incidentally. this is why R/C vehicles can have pretty much any flame kind/size/color/geometry and they all drastically improve performance almost equally; even more so the smaller the vehicle. Don't try that on a real 1:1 car though and expect good results; stick to a properly designed flame graphic when at larger scales!

Red items go faster. Why are all ferrari's painted red? Enzo knew back then, and he did not have any computer to tell him.

Now your flame decal theory is interesting. Do you think we could apply flame decals to the black wires in order to balance out the EPE flow? Any help will better than none, and flame decals would be easier to retrofit. Alot easier to tell the power companies that they do not need to replace 10s of thousands of miles of black wire. And any idiot can stick a sticker on.

[BrianG]

Originally Posted by lincpimp

Red items go faster. Why are all ferrari's painted red? Enzo knew back then, and he did not have any computer to tell him.

Now your flame decal theory is interesting. Do you think we could apply flame decals to the black wires in order to balance out the EPE flow? Any help will better than none, and flame decals would be easier to retrofit. Alot easier to tell the power companies that they do not need to replace 10s of thousands of miles of black wire. And any idiot can stick a sticker on.

Red items don't go faster. Like I said, they just appear to because they are brighter and catch your attention easier. Paint one brick red and another black, throw both of them with equal power and see which one is faster. Ferrari paints their cars red because people don't know better and they are just cashing in on the ignorance.

Flame graphics only work on surfaces exposed to the outside. Inside the vehicle, they make no difference. You need proof? Repeat the brick throwing test outlined above, except replace the bricks with a certain flame-labeled lipo pack and a "regular" non-flame pack. Make sure both weigh the same.

[Semi Pro]

Originally Posted by BrianG

Red items don't go faster. Like I said, they just appear to because they are brighter and catch your attention easier. Paint one brick red and another black, throw both of them with equal power and see which one is faster. Ferrari paints their cars red because people don't know better and they are just cashing in on the ignorance.

Flame graphics only work on surfaces exposed to the outside. Inside the vehicle, they make no difference. You need proof? Repeat the brick throwing test outlined above, except replace the bricks with a certain flame-labeled lipo pack and a "regular" non-flame pack. Make sure both weigh the same.

i conducted your test today because it was my day off and being greatly overpaid i was able to but 3 bricks, i painted one red, one black and covered the last one with flame stickers.

after some thinking i decided the most scientific way of testing would be to drop them, (it was less work than throwing them anyway) the red brick hit the ground at .23sec the black one hit the ground at .23 and the one with flames hit the ground at .23sec as well, but what shocked me was the c rating, both the red and black bricks had a c rating of 0, but the one with the flames turned out to 150c, i was shocked at first, do you guys think the sticker could have caused this?