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Hi all.
I have added metal, hull and wheels to my HL Tiger but am finding standard supplied battery (7.2V 1700mAH) is not lasting very long and I think prob not supplying enough power now.
What is the next logical battery size etc that I can use or you would recommend.
I have read about LIPO batteries, can these be used?

Cheers
Mark

What kiaser said.
Get your butt to hobbyking.
You will need a Lipo charger, turnigy do a good cheap one but it doesn't come with leads so you will need a lead kit.
I would recommend the turnigy 5000mah 20c batteries. I use these myself.
You will also need to make some adaptors as lipos have different connectors to nicads/nimhs.
A charge bag.
A voltage alarm.
A balance lead extension can be useful although not essential
Available from, yes you guessed it
Hobbyking
A small effort for a big gain.
Your 10 to 30 minutes with the nicad should be 10 times better with the Lipo.
Good luck
Lister

Charge bags are they just fireproof? If so my wife's a cook so I might nick some of her pro fire proof oven gloves lol

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!

There's some good deals on eBay as well
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-x-Turnigy-L ... 41888abc88

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Zippy-6000mAh ... 4adaa43386


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Turnigy-5200m ... 33989e5643

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Zippy-Traxxas ... 6016.l4276

Actually hobbyking are not quite the bargain when you add the postage £7.00 seems quite dear for a single battery when most other suppliers are post free...just my opinion

A couple of points about Hobby-king you might like to know, The TURNIGY LI-PO/NI-CD/NI-MH charger is a very good and useful piece of kit BUT it needs a handbook to get any sense from it, You can find one on line and download it, but you will not get one if you buy your charger from Hobby-king, and secondly I had to wait weeks for my order to arrive although I have been given to understand that I was unlucky? shaun

I recommended the imax B6AC duel charger although even with instructions it takes a bit of getting used to but well worth the effort, I haven't got any lipos yet but its improved the performance of My 2000mah NiMH and hugely decreased the charge time.

hi there if you look this number up on e/bay uk the seller is called stockroom2012 and item number is 141531886492 i have this in my metal hull white metal gearboxes metal tracks tiger1 even has a tamiya plug and will power my tank through long grass and long run times you will need a lipo charger and the imaxB6 is an ideal charger just always balance charge and thats what i use hope this helps

Thanks for all the advice - will look up those options and let you know how it turned out.
Mark