Sorry LBRC, don't take it like that. I didn't read all your posts before posting, no. I read a little about your FET stacking and saw pics of your cars with 3 li-ions in straight series and my ears perked.
As far as the center of gravity thing goes, flipping has to do with the surface you drive on and the tires you use too, and if you think the difference between an xmod handling like a Ferarri or a station-wagon has to do with adding 2 more cells on top of the conventional installation, ya right. I'll give ya that though, it does raise the center of gravity which would make the car flip before a regular 2 cell, but my 2 cell flips all the time anyway. The tennis courts have a sand-paper like surface by my house. You could flip a very lightly modified one if you don't slow down before turning. That happens in the street too. Hell, the only place it wouldn't happen is a dusty tile or wood floor, or painted cement. Because to say that your car doesn't flip at all, to some effect of some uber awesome chassis design and cell placement, you're saying that it isn't that fast and can't take turns that sharp. To put it into a real world perspective.....a Honda Civic CRX has one the lowest center of gravity ratings of alot of cars its size, and I survived flipping one after going into a turn at about 70. If the tires cut in, and the inertia is just enough.....up and over you go.
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If you are wondering why my cells don・t overheat like yours do it・s simple; I balance the motor I・m running and my gear ratio with the cells I・m using and the type of driving I・m planning on.
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Let's not go there with the "mine don't overheat like yours do" crap. You obviously don't know squat about li-ions to be thinking that the cells not overheating has anything to do with having some virtual xmod slide-rule on power, motor, and drive train equations, built into your brain. Li-ions suck at current output, plain and simple. Case in point....why do think the pro's don't use them in their cars?? Answer, because Ni-Cad, Ni-MH and li-po's put out 10x's more power if not more. You can't say that you're going to get good power out of a motor that is running on cells that don't put out the current to drive them.
I just thought it was time for people to know that the fact that li-ions have made xmods fast is by luck at best. The cars are small enough to make their current-output/xmod-mass ratio favorable for a little acceleration and speed. Try putting a couple li-ions in a micro rs4 or any 1/10 and see what happens.
But at any rate, I didn't mean to get the thread all harsh, LBRC. You got some unrivaled innovations on your hand, that's for sure.