Afraid 1/32 F1 project will use very little from the dNaNo except maybe a future ball differential for an alternate rear end, for a CB it uses the Mini-Z ASF. I started the project awhile back but I keep running into or inventing delays, mostly I’m just not happy with my current cnc mill and am sort of waiting for this one which I hope to pick up in August when they become available here in the States to finish a final version.
Also been working on upgrading my lathe, not being a machinist fabricating some of the more intricate parts has had a fairly steep and sometimes painfull learning curve, especially when it comes to finding tools/equipment that will fit within my hobbyists budget yet still have the precision and repeatability I want. Not to mention some of life’s little medical curve balls getting in the way, but the project has been moving along.
Back to inside the dNaNo and its 130 mAh LiPo.
Afraid I sort of upset Tim over at MZR with some of my comments about it, but the cold hard fact is that as a LiPo goes it’s “adequate” with a good deal of room left for improvement, and the DC AA battery only charger basically sucks. Of course I suppose it does leave room for Kyosho to sell a future AC charger, but IMO the dNaNo charger is right down there with the Mini-Z boat and LIT chargers, but that is just my personal opinion and if anyone likes them that's great more power to them, oh
except that they would need more AA batteries for more power wouldn't they?
If you pry open the nifty little 30x20x7mm plastic dNaNo battery box you will find a small 25x17x5mm P34HP0017K02A Korean LiPo. I have no complaint about the battery being made in Korea right now China and Korea are dominating the market when it comes to the high current type of LiPo that we use in RC cars and plains, if not the low current high dollar cellphone and computer cells. There is no low voltage cutoff it's just a single LiPo cell. Funny thing about that; it seemed to be my slightly disparaging comments about LVC’s not really being necessary in a dNaNo except to possibly satisfy some lawyer that started the misunderstanding with Tim in the first place, but the dNaNo doesn’t have one so??? I didn’t mean to offend.
Thing is that until you actually drive a dNaNo with a 10C 210 or better yet 12-20C 200mAh battery after driving one with the stock battery all the theory in the world is not going to be much more than a so much babble about current delivery. For me it’s not the increased runtime, although that’s nice too, it’s the throttle response, on my track I get that full power feeling and steering control longer. At first I was using 10C 210mAh cells which where a noticeable improvement and all I originally though the dNaNo could possibly need but I was mistaken the 12-20C 200 cells are providing noticeable more power/punch longer, especially with the motors I’m using.
IMO upgrading the battery comes right after ball bearings, and before an XSpeed or other motor.
Which of course leads us to tires.
Ouch with the batteries and motors it didn’t take long for my front tires to go. A purest would say that it’s just like “real racing” but unless someone starts selling tire packages by the dozen at a reasonable price $3+ for 4 is going to be a major deterrent to dNaNo racing.
