Battery advice

[mike1268]

I got a cheap 6800 Ni-MH from ebay for about £15. It powered my Stug for about an hour of constant driving. I have metal road wheels, sprockets, idle wheel and tracks. Its a lot heavyer then it used to be but cant grumble at the cost to performance of these cheap Ni-Mh batteries

[jtracks]

I went with the 5800mah 2 cell lipo and smart charger from Traxxas. Got them from a local hobby shop. Plug and play no need for a balance plug as its built into the Traxxas plug. Great setup!

I haven't found a way to hook up a lipo alarm to to this new plug Jackalope so I don't buy them.

I'm running the IBU2 that has built in Lipo protection and all Traxxas lipo vehicles have built in lipo protection which is very handy.

I apologize in being being new to the world of Lipo batteries I didn't realize you could not hook up an alarm to a non-lipo ready vehicle with the Traxxas set up, this could cause a problem in over discharging and am glad you caught it.

I'll just sit down and shut up from now on as I do not want my lack of knowledge to cause anyone else a problem.

You don't have to do that Jack, I've learned plenty from you. First time I saw one of those was at my local hobby shop while shopping for lipos. The store owner said here use this, Traxxas has a new plug. I looked at it and new it was different but couldn't figure out why at first. Then it hit me, no balancing plug.

Joe

[edpanzer]

I've been banned from plugging the lipo alarm in without warning the Mrs first makes her jump out of her skin every time

[Lord Haw-Haw]

Goodness me you pack the power how long does it take to charge one of those nuclear power packs ?
All in all it looks good Lord Haw-Haw .

Never ran her down to low but the charger has logged 8+ hrs, the charger is "smart", I've watched the smart lipo bounce the current around while charging any capacity. I believe if I did the fast 5 amp option it wouldn't take too long.

edpanzer,
yes the alarm did raise the question "WHAT THE!!!", that first time I hooked one up -surprised me too! I leave all my HL battery doors loose to remind me to hook the alarms up. I have a lipo voltage monitor ( i cut all the pins except the 3 needed for 2s) to just inspect without the Beep Beep!!!

My Taigen KV-1's LVA is in one of the storage boxes: (that metal chassis was a task to drill)