Glad you enjoy it...

Mofair contrair? :mdr:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ABGIJwiGBc

x2!!! I wanna see more pics and videos of destroyed packs and vehicles!!!

:surprised: Incredible...

Good thing my words taste like chicken... :lol:

I wonder how the bullet got spinning like that? Very strange indeed. :neutral:

This reminds me of the fourth of july a couple years ago. I was on a dock with some buddies shooting off those big ass bottle rockets. The ones that are like 3 feet long... Anyway I shot one off and watch it blow up then I start walking back. The bottle rocket landed on my shoulder. Almost made me fall off the dock...

Good times. The 4th is my favorite holiday. Anyone doing anythink with the 4th and maxamps??:lol:

My friends and I make a trip out to the desert every once in a while. One of my friends shoots off model rockets, I drive my RC's, and the other ones just chill and watch us. We also usually cart a laptop out there to watch a movie on, and the plan this year is to bring a small TV with an Xbox or PS3 and run it off a (powerful) inverter hooked up to my truck. We also bring a second car and jumper cables, so no worries about draining out the battery).

The biggest point of the trip is just to be a bunch of guys 5+ miles from any type of thing that represents civilization (and usually the only people at all within a 5 mile radius). We still get cell reception out there though so its not like we go off the face of the planet into a 3rd dimension.

Anyway, since it is a dry lake and all and there are no plants and therefore nothing to catch fire, we were thinking of pitching in to buy a lipo and wire it to create a little show in a cheap model rocket after it takes off (aka, short the lipo and then shoot the rocket off right away).

We were going to do maxamps but even their small stuff is super expensive, so I found some really cheap FlightPower packs, but couldn't bring myself to buy such great packs to just destroy them. Looks like we are saving up for the maxamps ones.

Look on hobbycity. They have lots of really cheap lipos.

Unless you think smoke is cool, I would not waste your time. Newer lipos will not do much more than smoke when you short them. It would be better to fill the rocket up with black powder... Or a mixture of gas and styrofoam.... Just do not stand under it when it goes off.

I'm sure there's stuff made for this too. Check online or in the rocket section at your lhs.

I'm going back to the range on Monday and bringing my POS Hacker with me. I've got a case of 1,000 rounds of 30-06 ammo I bought just because the price was right but it's not good enough for hunting, I don't have any more lipos to blow apart but the motor should make for a nice trophy :party:

Speaking of eating words, my new 8000s seem to be performing quite well so far. They're holding their voltage under load noticeably better than my old ones, running a little cooler, and they seem to be staying very well balanced. My first pack was perfectly balanced after discharging 4500 of the 8000 mAH, and the second pack was out of balance by 0.01v which my balancer quickly fixed. I hope they hold up for longer than my first ones, they only got 150-200 cycles out of them before they started going downhill. This makes it much easier to stomach the fact that I spent over $400 on these lipos :eyes:

150 cycles is quite good actually.

I've been told 300-500 cycles on a lipo is considered good life. They weren't even charged at 1C and were run well below their max rated amperage, too.