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Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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[-] slembcke@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

RC stuff, but only kinda? My dad got me into micro helicopters about a decade ago. I now have several dozen planes, drones, helis, etc. Not to mention multiple RC radios, batteries, chargers, and FPV goggles. Absolutely love it, though. To be fair, it's been a few thousand dollars over a decade. It ads up sure... but quite a bit less than I spend on video games, and more satisfying. :)

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Out of curiosity, have the battery lives improved from older RC vehicles? I've looked at some current models and it still seems like they run only a short time, but I've not followed RC stuff closely enough to know if they've really gotten much better and I'm lacking the context.

[-] June@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I race electric on-road and we have a couple endurance races we run every year. We’re able to get upwards of 45+ minutes of run time without losing performance from some of our high capacity (8000mah+) batteries.

But we also run high turn (21.5t or 25.5t), and sometimes fixed timing, motors, so draw isn’t that significant.

My Losi Baja Rey running a 3600kv (beefy, high draw) motor gets 15-20 minutes of run time from my 5000mah battery depending on how hard I run it.

Run time really comes down to how high draw the motor is, lipo battery technology is significantly improved over the old nicad and nimh chemistries of the past.

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the reply and insight! I suspect some of the models I was looking at may have had some lower capacity batteries to try to balance out the costs, and I was overlooking that.

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