Another E-Slayer hits the Short Course

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by BrianG

How dare you disagree! lol. J/K

I've had no problems running my two 2s 5Ah Maxamps lipos in my fairly heavy Hyper8 while waiting for my 8Ah packs to charge. I'm sure there are better bang-for-the-buck packs out there, I just think 4s 5Ah Maxamps packs would technically work, that's all.

I am sure the high-revving, lower geared neu is not hurting your success with the maxamps packs. You may also have a better matched assortment of maxamps cells. My 5s packs would go way out of balance, had to limit my runtimes so that the packs would balance out during a charge. I got so sick of 3-4hr charges with tons of balancing. Glad you are having success with them though!

On a side note it once took me 37hrs of .5 amps charging to get a brand new maxamps 10k 3s pack into balance. If I charged it anymore than that the balancer would interrrupt the charge. Factory matched cells my ass!!!

[BL_RV0]

37 HOURS?!!

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by BL_RV0

37 HOURS?!!

Yep, and after that the pack would stay decently balanced. I was running it in a pede, so the draw was not too much. Glad I sold that stuff...

[BL_RV0]

Yeah...
I had the world's funnest stampede setup in about an hour of work time.
1. Quick bike ride to LHS for deans plugs
2. Solder a series adapter
3. Find a way to mount dual 5s packs
6. Install align 600xl
7. Install the esc I've only used once, some Bidproduct esc
8. Turn it on
9. Full throttle. (repeat 12 times)
10. Watch 2 consecutive double standing backflips. OMG
11. See smoke coming from tranny
12. Remove tranny
13. Find that every plastic gear is melted
14. Remove all components.

I had a hell of alot of fun. Also measured a stock rustler tire at full throttle. 9" in diameter. Yes, both of them.