firefox
Senior Heliman
Location: Thailand
My Posts This: Topic Forum | Vic, you wanted an unbiased opinion. THERE IS NO SUCH THING. People are biased, whether they realize it or not. I gave my own experience with nitros and electrics (and I started with nitro) and my friend's experience (and he started with electric), and that's about as close as you can get.
My experience actually was between small electrics and medium nitros, which is not a fair comparison (for either, cost for one, stability for the other). However, this is what has been traditionally compared : Get a T-rex 450 or a Nitro?
These days you have the mass production of medium electric kits. So electrics now have the stability of nitros... but their cost goes way up too. For a nitro, there's only the engine and the fuel, for the electric there's three components, the motor, ESC, and battery (and a $$$ charger that can handle high voltage packs). Yes, you can go cheap (like you say $160, which is likely a middling 6S pack) on any of these components, but you won't get satisfactory performance. For nitro, you can also use cheap fuel, with 0% nitro. You know how much that costs? Around $5 a gallon. A lot of people in my country use this, and they can fly pretty well with it. If anyone wants to do a numerical comparison between the two, try to keep the relative costs comparable, too. Let's not compare say, a cheapo motor+ESC+battery combo with say a 50 Hyper on 30% nitro. Let's also keep in mind that lipos will rarely last more than 100 flights, if that. They usually will fail, lose power, crash, or whatever. |
