What's the best Battery ?

jeman · Post by **jeman** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:37 pm

Hi all......just a quick question. What is the best battery for a 1/16 Taigen Tiger Tank ? I'm looking at upgrading the standard yellow one that came with the Tank.
Cheers
Mark

edpanzer · Post by **edpanzer** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:41 pm

I've changed to lipos 5000mah hardcase my tanks quite heavy and I get over an hours running with them.

PainlessWolf · Post by **PainlessWolf** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:58 pm

Good morning,
I don't use Lipos but I fully agree with 5000mah. Heavy tanks need more juice.
regards,
Painless

971wright · Post by **971wright** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 5:03 pm

Hi Everyone now is going over to lipos , you need a alarm if fitting to standard electrics.If you intend to upgrade the electrics as well to say IBU they are already set up to use Lipo batteries . If you want to stick to Nihm batterys go for quality over capacity get a well known brand . either way you go get a good smart charger(one that will do both Lipo and Nihm batteries.

regards pete

wibblywobbly · Post by **wibblywobbly** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 7:19 pm

If you go the Nimh route then you will only get what you pay for. Ebay is festooned with mis-labelled Nimh's that quote ridiculous mah's, some of which are impossible to achieve with this size of battery. I got stung, bought some cheap 5300 batteries that are no better than the 1700's that come with an HL tank. Lucky to get 5 minutes out of them?

By comparison, a quality 3700mah will last over an hour. I would only trust Vapextech and Turnigy, but there are others. Good batteries aren't cheap though, and there is no way around that.

jackalope · Post by **jackalope** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 7:56 pm

5800 mah lipos run my 20 lb tanks for 4-6 hours.

Swamprat33 · Post by **Swamprat33** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 10:49 pm

...One that never needs to be recharged...

mike1268 · Post by **mike1268** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 9:56 am

Let say he wants to stick to NI-MH and needs a quality brand. Which brands are good? Which brands to avoid?

billpe · Post by **billpe** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 1:35 pm

Anything LIPO that is EFRA/ROAR/BRCA approved for 1:10/1:8 racing use is probably OK to use.

I'm dubious about Turnigy quality, I have a few 3S batteries for my SCTE 2.0 and the Turnigy ones are pretty much inferior in every way. They are cheap though.

In respect to Nimh batteries, I have Orion and Venom ones. They seem to do the trick. I used to have the Ansmann ones but they seem to not make them any more.

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