Whats with everyone and buying batt. packs?

[Whatup1049p]

I dont get why people spend 25 or 30 dollars on battery packs that are wimpy 900 mah or something like that? Today i went to Target and bought 6 1800 MAH rechargeable batteries for 14.99. I already had the shrink wrap stuff from my LHS, cost 1.99 for a foot of it. Then i soldered the batteries together and arranged them to fit how i wanted them to in my car. Then i just put the shrink wrap over it, blow dried it for a minute and i had a high quality 1800 mah battery pack for my micro that cost 17 dollars. I could almost have 2 of those for the price of 1 i could buy. Maybe some people just cant solder? I dont know but its easy, custom and cost almost half as much.

Whatup1049-

[speedy]

I hear you dude. Show mw a picture of what your talking about. Did you buy Energizer Accu's?

[TFRMicro]

not everybody needs that much capacity.....

I have nicd 2/3a 600mAh and I'm already have with it...

[bay1219]

I've bought 2 of the Team Orion 1100 mah 7.2V packs and now that I've spent all that money on them, I've realized that for the price I paid for the both of them, I could have made 4 or more custom packs. I guess I was just too lazy to make them myself. Whatup - how exactly do you solder a pack together. I've never done it before and I'm not sure how to do it.

[xxtcrgp]

well when im to lazy i take it to battery plus and get them to do it for me. To make a pack all i do is shoo goo the batterys together in the sequence i want, tin the ends quickly so you dont get the batteys to hot,connect the battery bars/wires, and add shrink wrap if you want. Its acually quite easy.

[bay1219]

Doesn't sound too bad. I'll probably build my next pack.

[TFRMicro]

when you are soldering, make sure you don't have the soldering iron touching the batt for more then 3 secs when you are make a connection...

[tc rcr]

good tips,i'll probably make mine next time also.so the 1800's are out i just picked up some 1600's from walmart,guess i'll make the trip to target and get some 1800's.

[Whatup1049p]

Good im glad i am helping other people. It leaves us with more money to spend on theose irresistable hopups :)

[HarshGuy]

The reason I went to 2/3 AA Nimh's is #1 weight and #2 size, as far as runtime since all I do with my Micro is race it and our qualifiers are 5 minutes, mains 15 minutes runtime is more than sufficient.

Even though I could still save a little going with individual cells vs. prebuilt packs, i actually bought 2/3 Nimh cells from battery connection or whatever that one web site was and the batteries had a hell of a lot less voltage than the Orion packs ...and again with using my Micro strictly for racing given the above parameters, I am more worried about voltage and IR than runtime. Not to mention that the extra 1/2 hour or whatever time it is to build a pack I can use to do something else ...like get my motors ready for the Speedworld Cup :)

[p2gee]

Originally posted by TFRMicro
not everybody needs that much capacity.....

I have nicd 2/3a 600mAh and I'm already have with it...

Yeah....I agree.....why buy 500 gallons of gas when you only need a gallon to get to the store. Our races are only 5 minutes and i'm getting about 8 minutes out of 2/3a nicads using a speed 300.

[pisnonvtec]

Originally posted by p2gee


Yeah....I agree.....why buy 500 gallons of gas when you only need a gallon to get to the store. Our races are only 5 minutes and i'm getting about 8 minutes out of 2/3a nicads using a speed 300.

Exactly!! I'm using 2/3aa's 750 mah with plenty of run time..

[Turbo Cloud]

I think i am going to stick to what i got with the stock pack and 4 reachargeable batteries i mite try lithium :cool:

[Turbo Cloud]

If you get those 9.6v packs rip them apart and you got a customized pack too

[TFRMicro]

but more and more ppl are now going with brick cells, they seem to have the good size for the micro...

too bad i only have a nicd charger...:(

[Turbo Cloud]

i could get one then tape the esc down by the battery if i had a brick pack

[armithius]

I have 4 six cell ofna brick packs that I race with at my local track. However there is another track I was gonna try out, but they only allow 5 cells in the mod class due to the size of the track. I really didn't want to spend the money on the ofna bricks again. Instead I stumbled upon a deal for brick cells. They were actually a 4 brick cell cellular phone battery. Each cell is a 1.2v 850 mah Nimh cell. I was able to pick up 40 cells for $23.50 with shipping. The only catch is you have to tear open the battery case, then disassemble the battery packs and then reassemble the individual cells. But for $23 and a bit of time I can make 10-4 cell packs, or 8-5 cell packs. If your interested the website is www.allelectronics.com
They run $2 per 4 cell battery or $1.75 if you order 10 or more. I don't expect them to be as good as a well known cell manufacturer, however for stock racing, fun racing or just plain bashing they should work great.

[armithius]

The above cells are also slightly smaller than the Ofna cell due to them only being 850 mah.

[pisnonvtec]

six 2/3aa cells lined up perfectly down the center!!

[xxtcrgp]

thanks arthimus for that link, im gonna get 50 of them, lol

[armithius]

Here's another link for a site selling surplus batteries:
www.sciplus.com/category.cfm?subsection=13

[xxtcrgp]

thanks again;)