Board Thread:Rumor discussion/@comment-39814790-20200803194101/@comment-27306930-20200831113059

I like the XT-60 idea. I did something similar with a Stampede. The battery tray still takes alkalines, but I soldered in an XT-60 connector so I can also stick a LiPo in it.

But the real problem with Hasbro flywheel blasters isn't the batteries, it's the motors. The 130 size motors Hasbro has been using are REALLY cheap. Just swapping them out for RM-2 motors was a big improvement, with no other modification. And those were cheap motors too.

Dart Zone has been making 100 FPS blasters for a while now. The Scorpion was released in 2014 with 9 volt motors that consistently get 100 FPS using 6 regular alkaline AAs. And those aren't particularly good motors either.

Bottom line, Dart Zone doesn't need to go full out LiPo to get 100+ FPS. And their lawyers are already OK with 150 FPS. So I wouldn't be surprised to see a super-stock Dart Zone flywheeler sometime in the near future. It will be really interesting to see if/how they break the 130 FPS glass ceiling.