The Backyard – The Losi LMT Gets a Firmware Update
Good day people, and a Happy Friday to you! Welcome to the Backyard! This week is gonna be a throwback to my Monster Truck Madness days, as a result of it’s all a couple of new monster!
The Losi LMT 2.0 has been introduced, and the Losi crew has finished a very good job of constructing a number of vital updates to the platform. You can learn the product page for the entire options, however I wished to level out a couple of which are essentially the most vital to this very long time Losi LMT racer.
– Updated Axles – Losi has modified the axle to a brand new two piece design, which seems to be a lot stronger. The older design was 4 items, and whereas I wouldn’t name the earlier axles “weak”, it did create a number of factors the place they may fail below excessive use. This ought to assist restrict that. They’ve additionally elevated the pinion bearing measurement, which is one other welcome change.
– The DRIVE electronics are an enormous factor. Having not pushed the truck, I don’t know the way nicely they work. Some people that I discover respected HAVE pushed the automobile although, and all say it appears to work as marketed. For those who don’t know what it does, it permits for varied two wheel methods that the total measurement vans can do, like energy wheelies, stoppies, and bicycling, to have the ability to be carried out with relative ease on the r/c truck. Due to physics, many of those methods are principally inconceivable to do with regularity in an r/c monster. Not anymore although, apparently, because the onboard gyro will handle throttle management to permit the LMT to do a few of the stuff the large boys can.
– New wheels on the 2.6 “standard monster truck size” – The OG LMT utilized brief course fashion break up dimension wheels that went in opposition to the grain of the “Clod sized” monster truck wheel that’s been the usual within the r/c strong axle world ceaselessly. I perceive of the logic of why they went with it, however I don’t suppose it wound up being a wise selection for a wide range of causes, the least of which being cosmetics. The 2.0 seems so a lot better with the brand new tires/wheels!
– New stronger servo and servo saver – This was a very powerful improve to make in case you purchased the OG LMT, and I’d argue it was just about obligatory in case you wished to do something save for gentle obligation bashing. I imply, servos normally are all the time the factor you must improve in an RTR automobile, so maybe it’s not saying quite a bit, however nonetheless! I’m joyful that Losi has addressed this and provided a brand new servo and a redesigned/stronger servo saver.
The LMT 2.0 is ready to launch later this month, and my LHS is getting a demo rig subsequent week. I’m hoping they’ll enable me to try it out so I can get some hands-on time with the DRIVE system to report again on the way it feels. If I get some set off time in, I’ll publish my impressions!
That’s it for me this week. The manner it’s gone this yr thus far, what with an enormous announcement dropping seemingly each Thursday, you possibly can count on me to debate subsequent week’s large information drop subsequent Friday!
Until then, preserve it on all 4’s!