Advice for Brushless Setup for HPI Baja

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by jhautz

You would need to do some mod work on the wiring onside those dewalt packs to use them in the case. The wires dewalt uses are way to thin to cary the kind of current an RC uses. Plus you would be acying around all that extra weight of the cases and the crap inside the case you dont need.

Yeah, that is a good point. It is suprising how heavy all of the casing and bs is. Almost as heavy as the cells themselves. Do you think 14s2p would be enough to move the baja around?

[zeropointbug]

I like your idea of leaving the drill battery in the case Lincpimp... although, I would use DeWalt 36v packs, either 2 or 4 packs (with a 10s setup), that way they stay nice and protected, you have built in balancing, and would look plain cool!

I mentioned in the other forum that I cost out a conversion for the SS at something like $3000, IIRC. I used all the best stuff, which you might want in something like this after all.

BTW, Fine-design only has two small lipo packs (he claims 30C....BS), which will most likely be over loaded and/or have little runtime.