[lincpimp]

Well, the best thing with nimh cells is to not buy them, and go directly to lipo. See how he just wasted the cost of a decent used lipo charger, and will most likely buy more nimhs, at least worth the price of a pair of decent lipos.

Now it is best to build your own packs, from good quality loose cells. Good quality loose cells cost as much as decent lipos (protech?), require assembly, and will benifit from a high quality charger that most likely has lipo capability.

The best cheap cells I found were the 3500 tenergy cells, all other cells from tenergy were not good. All venom lipos and most other premade packs are cardboard cells, that have maybe a .0003c rating, or worse. The duratrax large capacity premade side x side packs look nice, but are close to the price of cheaper lipos.

Nimhs are just too expensive. My lhs sells venom 4200 6cell stick packs for 55 bucks, and I tested a pair in a blackjack brushless boat. Stock boat, that recommends a pair of 4200 packs for power. 16.5v at rest, 10.8 under load before the esc would hit some sort of lvc. That equated to half throttle runs, and about 3 secs of acceleration under full throttle.

Like I said .0003c rating!