Anyone into R/C?

Im thinking about selling my 1/8 scale drag car. Just wondering if anyone out there would be interested? It has a carbon fiber body with wheelie bar. All aluminum gears. foam tires with a mini servo up front. All u need is a motor and remote. I also have a Lipo battery ill put with it that is made for it with size and weight. I had a mamba max motor in it with that lipo and it was extremely fast around 80mph. I now have that motor in my Rustler. Let me know if anyone is interested and ill post some pics.

 

The reason I ask is because I just got my brother a Traxxas slash vxl and im going to need more than one charger.

What about the hobbyking multi charger or the Hobbypartz multi charger?

 

Pretty much any charger from HP is gonna be solid. I prefer ordering from HP. HK shipping takes forever since most of their stuff ships from overseas

 

So this charger is pretty good I assume?


http://www.hobbypartz.com/75p-t6-multi-charger.html

 

Sure, looks good to me. Awesome price too. I might actually be interested in this when my battery collection grows.

 

Helped my dad build a trailer to pull his axial ax10 behind his stampede. Besides a few odd and ends its mostly done, I like the way it came out, cant wait to see finished pictures.

 

^awesome trailer!


bigsquid did a charger shootout a while back.

http://www.bigsquidrc.com/lipo-battery-charger-shootout/

 

ghetto rigged a camera set up for the track! lol

 

Well, tried soldering the Deans connectors to the Gens Ace 40C and...it wasn't pretty.

I got a physically strong connection (meaning they feel solid when pulled on), but I have no idea how good the actual connection will be.

I had no idea how difficult it was going to be to fit the 12awg wire off the batteries onto the Deans. Barely enough room.

With as long as it took me to do that, I may just have to forget converting and use some adapters.

For those of you running the Gens Ace (non-direct version), did you make the conversion to Deans? If so, want to do my other three for me?

Fink

 

Soldering Deans is a pain in the ass. I just did a lot of them. I'm thinking about switching over to EC3

 

Did you use a "third hand tool"? You can pick one up for five bucks or so.

 

third hands are a must....or a vise or something to secure the plug.

 

Ghetto alright!!!

 

Yeah - thankfully I picked one of those up when I got my soldering iron.

I think it was a combination of wiring that was too big (12awg seemed massive), plus a soldering iron that was too hot with too big of a tip p).

For the next two batteries and the ESCs, I think I'll just bring it all in to my LHS and have them do it for a few bucks per connector.

Fink

 

IMO, there is no such thing as a iron that's too hot, too big, yes. Strip a very small amount of insulation (don't forget to slide on your shrink tubing, that will piss you off), tin the wire and the "tab" on the plug, position in the third hand, apply heat. Let cool, slide up shrink tubing, shrink, enjoy. I have not looked, but there has to be a YouTube vid of the proper way to do this.

 

There a ton of YouTube videos on it, and I did it exactly as they showed. If it weren't for the massive 12awg wire on the Gens Ace batteries, it wouldn't have been an issue at all. I got one of them done, but there is less than 1mm clearance between the tabs/wires on the plug.

Fink

 

Anyone have any idea if the 12awg wire will give me problems on EC3 connectors? I've decided Deans plugs aren't what my heart desires. I'm ordering a fuck-ton of stuff soon and will have several things to put EC3's on..

 

I'm not really into RC myself, but my brother just got a Syma S107G for $25ish off Amazon. For the money, I'm really quite impressed with the quality and how smooth it flies.

$25 Tenergy Syma S107/S107G R/C Helicopter - Yellow

http://www.amazon.com/Syma-S107-S107G-Helicopter-Yellow/dp/B004A8ZRB0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1327947982&sr=8-2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrXEz11fdkY

 

Just buy adapters, that's what I did. Have you thought about Traxxas connectors? I like those a little better than Deans. Easier to solder and pull apart.