Alan McLennan
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All good info Rhino, I was at the start planning to use a 2s LiPo battery that I was going to remove for balance charging due the motor IYep, as Jon and Rik have indicated, in essence there are two directions to go with battery power - NiMh and Li-po.
There are people on the forum who have experience of both of these. There is a tendency to do one or the other largely because of the very different charging regimes, and a crude summary of options goes like this.
NiMh - readily available from places like Strikealite or Vapextech in appropriate pack sizes. Strikealite will definitely make up bespoke packs. You need to use an intelligent charger designed for NiMh / NiCad battery charging. You can get LSD (low self discharge) in AA battery size rated at 2300 mAh - remember that, whatever size battery you use, in re-chargeable format each cell is 1.2v not 1.5v
Li-po - you need to buy from reputable sources. You get more bang for your buck in so much as greater power from a physically smaller pack. Charging is more technical, and if using multiple cells, you need to balance the cells in use as well as when being charged.
Whichever you choose, remember a fuse
Easiest to use now is a suitably rated polyswitch -PhilP can advise.
It only starts to get complex when you add the R/C - again, talk todunnyrail uses Fosworks
planned to use, but now with the small motor I'm hoping to charge the batteries on board.
It didn't show in the video, but I was controlling it with a Fosworks Tx3.1 RC that I got with my Roundhouse Billy, I just ordered a couple of FRX23v receivers ( which came in just 8 days to OZ ! )
and with a little help from Steve I was able to get it controlling the Hudswell.
