Cheapest places for batteries

[coolhandcountry]

Mike has it going on in the hobby. I try to give Mike my bizz to. I just like to keep all options open. No offense mike. Mike has been getting a little money out me. I just wish i had found the site earlier on.

[Major Azzwoopin]

hey starscream what motor and motor mounting bracket is that??

[Batfish]

I also use the SPTs (Solder-less Power Tubes) from MEC. They've got good customer service as well. I have both 6- and 8-cell SPTs with IB3600 cells that consistently out-perform my GP3300 packs.

I'd just like to make one comment about other businesses on this forum. I believe it's in poor taste to come on RC-Monster.com's forums and suggest that people shop elsewhere for products sold here. If you think there's a better deal elsewhere, PM Mike and (if he can't beat it) PM another member to tell them to shop there.
I, too, believe that it is important to keep options open and shop around. I spread my business between my local hobby shop, which a friend owns, RC-Monster.com, Tower Hobbies, and other smaller assorted online retailers. However, I'm not going to post public messages on this retailer-hosted forum to shop elsewhere for a product he has in his catalog. It's basically a matter of respect.
I think Mike showed great restraint coming to this thread and posting, without comment, that he had competitive pricing on products that people suggested shopping elsewhere for.

I'll get off the soap box now.

:)

[Major Azzwoopin]

Batfish, You are absolutely correct I have done exactly what you are saying on a couple of occassions. It was not done intentioanlly to take business from Mike and RC-Monster. My apologies to RC-Monster team members. Sometimes I may call out a competitors site to identify a new (or new to me) product. I (and others most certainly) only mean to identify the object and see what experiences there are in here, related to it. Also posting it in here is smart because almost certainly Mike and the other RC-Monster members have seen or heard about it one way or another..
Mike and everyone here has been hugely helpful with discussing their experiences and sharing knowledge. Mike and Serum are helping me put together a BL Savage right now.

Just saying Great Job RC-Monster guyz and Mike especially.

Next !!! who wants the soap box next???

[Major Azzwoopin]

By the way Mike I would like to get you to put some 3800 packs together for me. I will pm you some more about them.

Just a heads up. I want to put together 2 packs for my Emaxx I am putting the HV-Maxx Novak system in it this weekend. So I am not sure what the best battery layout for 14 cells would be on a stock emaxx chassis. Also for the Savage I want to do 20 cells, and depending on what type of battery mounting arrangement I (or us) come up with, will determine the battery configurations.

[Major Azzwoopin]

Also Guys I see a couple of different IB or IBC 3800's which are the better ones. Intellect has a 3800 that is listed as IB (for Intellect Battery)on some sites, and EPIC has a IB3800 listed as well. Are they the same cells?? just in a different named wrapper?? and is there an IBC cell as well??

[RC-Monster Mike]

IBC = Intellect Battery Cells. Same batteries. Thanks, Major and Batfish for the support, respect and kind words also.

[Re~Mix]

I might be interested in some ibc 3800's, although im more concerned about run time than voltage, as long as I can hit the same speeds as my 2 year old 2400's im fine. I'm just looking for loose cells though, as I have to be pretty picky and neat to fit cells in the xxx-t.

[rchippie]

mike what kind of runtime are you getting on the 3800's ?. I need to get atleast 2 sets of 6 cell packs, & 2 sets of 7 cell packs so i can run in the 10 min nitro mains. I get just over 9 min 30 sec on my 3300's. So i figure the 3800's should put me over the 10 min mark.

Also i would just like to say thats mike's customer service is second to no one. He is awsome Thank's mike.

[starscream]

Oooh ooooh I wanna turn on the soap box too ;)
I agree with ya Batfish, I guess that had to be said. I can't say enough about the help and support that Mike has provided.
So what do you think about the batt tubes Mike? Good, Bad, Indifferent? Would you be interested in carrying them? I know Pete personally. I can actually blame his brother for inflicting me with the brushless addiction. Now I can't stop :L:

Major, the motor is a maxcim N32 brushless motor made in the good OL USA http://www.maxcim.com. Unfortunately the guy who produced these motors has discontinued thier production. He told me that he couldn't keep up with the lower cost motors (I'm assuming the feigao's n such) so he had to give it up. He is an engineer in NYC so this was a side business anyway. The motor plate is a stock emaxx plate mounted to a tmaxx transmission. Its not too hard to do with a drill and a dremel. I gave that project up for my E-Revo aka Evo. I've spoken to Mike about upgrading my system to even higher voltage and am going to get a Lehner 1940/14 and a bk3670. This new system is begging for Lipo's.

I've got so much information, inspiration and help from this forum. I plan on givin Mike as much business as I can.

Thanks Mike

[Serum]

What Kokams are you talking about starscream? You got me curious.... ;)

[Batfish]

Originally posted by rchippie
mike what kind of runtime are you getting on the 3800's ?. I need to get atleast 2 sets of 6 cell packs, & 2 sets of 7 cell packs so i can run in the 10 min nitro mains. I get just over 9 min 30 sec on my 3300's. So i figure the 3800's should put me over the 10 min mark.

From my own experience, my unmatched IB3600 6-cell packs consistently give me about 1 extra minute of runtime compared to my unmatched GP3300 6-cell packs. The IB3600 packs are also cooler after the run, so there's less of a wait to recharge. This should mean that you'll get plenty of runtime from the IB3800 cells since they are numerically superior in every area that counts.

Also, someone earlier had asked about the IB3800 in the SPTs; I have the IB3600, which have the same physical dimensions. The only thing you may have to do on some cells is shave some shrink from the end of the cell so that the cell ends touch evenly and completely. Out of the 28 cells I put in my SPTs, I had to do this for about 20. There are instructions with the SPTs.

Starscream - you mentioned that you know Pete personally. Do you talk to him much? If so, he may have mentioned that someone actually broke an SPT recently; that was me :)
The 8-cell SPT I was using on my MGT at the track for practice broke an end cap. Pete sent me a replacement at no charge. He mentioned that noone had broken one before, so I felt proud to be the first :)

[starscream]

Serum, I spoke to a FMA sales person and they told me they are planning to release a 6s Kokam balanced pack and charger in late Aug (subject to change of course) and a 4s balanced pack a month or two after that. Its kind of a toss up for me, right now, between the Kokam's and the Polyquest but the Kokam 6s sounds great. I'm still waiting to hear on prices.

Batfish, I haven't sen Pete for a few months. Last time I was over there, he gave me a spt he designed for the gp1100's. I used this in my rc18t with a mamba 8000. That setup was insanily too fast, even with only 6 cells.
What vehicle did you break the spt in?
The batt tubes are made of plastic so they are not industructible but very durable. I have had a front end cap split on me before. So now, I use a small piece of foam, placed in front of the front end cap, to protect the spt from front end collisions. Associated makes foam battery spacers that work well for this. You could always use foam on the rear as well, if you need to protect against getting rear ended :W: . But As long as the spt is secured tight on the truck and doesn't have room to move, you should be fine.

[RC-Monster Mike]

I haven't used the tubes, but have heard some good things about them. I am a weight freak, so anything that adds weight has a tough time making the list of what I use on my trucks. :) I mostly run Lipos now, with an occasional nimh run.

[Batfish]

I broke it in my brushless MGT.