Interesting battery straps - How easy is it to remove the batteries and how securely does it hold them in?

I didnt even notice the new straps- bike inner tubes. That stuff is fairly tuff, and not too stretchy, so I guess it will work quite well; a single width-ways strap might be a good idea though.

Yes those are from DH bikes inner tubes, tuff stuff and durable.. Had to cut 'em half cause it was too hard to get the battery between. It's rather easy to remove, attaching is little difficult though, but I think it will stretch out a bit still.
I think that the batterys are the last parts that I have to worry about now, we'll see if Im able to get the truck into some bashing action :tongue:

DH bikes? from a motorbike or a mountain bike - I think I might try this....

The gorillamaxx straps are a pain with the 6s A123 packs...

What I use is 24x2,4" wide mountain bike inner tube.

Couple Q's about the charger
 

Im about to charge my batterys now. Read the manual but it really doesn't make any sense to me, hehe. So is it that simple if I want to balance that one battery pack, I choose [Memory No.2] A123 19.8v 2300 C:10.0A and then connect Main leads to the charger and then the balancer tap to the balancer board and press Enter?

And if I want to charge both the batterys I just choose same settings only now select 4600mah to capacity, connect the harness lead to the charger, no balancer tap and enter?
Just to make sure everything is ok.. Any nice advices are welcome concerning the batterys and charger.

Edit:
Charger is EOS 0610i NET and batterys 2xA123 2300mah 19,8V

I would set the charge current to 2.3 amps, or 4.6 amps at most for a single pack- you can in theory charge them at upto ~10amps, but I would play it safe to start with. That is pretty much all you have to do though yeah, just be sure to balance the packs afterwards if you dont while charging 2 packs together. Kinda strange, but my packs always stay balanced right through a charge, then in the last few minutes one cell always reaches 3.6v and the charge terminates, while the other cells are all still at about 3.4v each- weirdness...

OK, Thanks. Charged the battery without problems, first one tooked 90 min and second one just 50 min with 2.3A. So it seems that the balancing times alternates a little..

I found the bad solder what caused the gogging, it was so bad that if I just twisted the connector it cutted the power :tongue:. Now the esc works much better, but still a little glitch at the startup, in my memory it has done always that..
Did a few speed passes at the street, dang it goes smoothly :lol: So much power and what a speed. Temps: battery 28°C(82.4°F), esc 38°C(100.4°F) & motor around 50°C(122°F). I think I can still gear up a little and hope that motor will cool down a bit.

Still have to mount all the wirings and now have couple questions about on/off switch and fans.
I have now On/off switch between bec and receiver, started to wonder that can I place the switch after the batterys? So I could close the bec/receiver circuit at once. Can the switch handle over 20V?

And about fans, I have two 35mm 5V 0.7 watts fans, can I plug 'em in to the receivers 3rd channel?

Im gonna do more tests today, if I get the wirings etc. done. So video and elogger graph coming soon.. Stay tuned!

Good news on the build! More pics please

No on the switch it won't take the amps.

Yes on the fans on the 3rd channel... Cheers

Thanks. Oh more pics, here ya go :intello:

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Edit:
Had to take that Venom smart temp off, it didn't work. With fm radios it worked fine, but with spektrums it didn't :(

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Last ones

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Did some driving today, I tooked a video, but it wasn't so good. I might upload it later or get a new one tomorrow.
Here's elogger data anyway, just click it and use magnifying glass to get bigger one.. Still got some stuttering when pulling wot, it didn't do it so much yesterday.. Have to figure it out somehow.

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Looks very nice - I'll be buying some bike tube this week for sure!

Only a couple of suggestions -

1) look at the tekno sway bar kit
2) you could mount the esc off of the second ear - I can post up what I did later...

The batterys are holding just fine, noticed that it isn't necessary to pull the tubes all the way top of the packs.

I was considering the kit when I ordered the stuff from Mike, but at next order I will.
Yes, post pics :yes:

Edit:
About the elogger graph, does it look normal? Quite amps, its allmost pushing the esc's limits..