Lipo charger

Just found this one, heard it is one of the best chargers we carry at Hobby People. I really like the specs too, 14 Nimh cells isn't too shabby, but the 5 cell Lipo limit would kinda make me have to settle. I wouldn't mind it all too much though, employee price is $60! We also got the Impulse packs in, there's a special deal going on right now to get a 11.1v 2100mah 16C pack for $40!!! It's this one here just so you know, and would be one heck of a deal.

[MetalMan]

$40, huh? That's one heck of a deal!

The Multiplex charger seems rather good. I had one on my X-Mas list, but sadly did not get it. I did, however, get that Emtel power supply (posted on the first page of this thread), and it is working quite well so far.

I'll see if I can special order some of those packs, not sure if I can, but I'll find out tomorrow. Then again, tomorrow is shipment day, and if I can find them before a customer, I'll be set! :D Cool thing is that the packs come with taps already on them (I was surprised by that actually), so they're balancer ready. I also figure that 3 or 4 of those packs would be great, run two in parallel and then series them together to get insane-o voltage for the Savage........but the Multiplex can only do 5 cells.......crud. Maybe 2 11.1v packs and 2 7.4v packs, that way I can basically make a 5s4p pack.......if I did the numbers right. Oooooh, oooooh, then I could also run it in Stock class or something with my T2 on two of the 7.4's in parallel and whomp on everyone!

Now that I think it through, this is seeming much more feasible than the 8000mah packs I was looking at, and while I may have to take the cut from 6s to 5s, I don't think it'll matter too much in a Savage with a 9xl. Best part is, everything's local, so I don't have to wait for shipping!

[MetalMan]

2 3s packs and 2 2s packs would be 5s2p (18.5v, 4200mah). That would be an awesome setup, and would be capable of 80amps continuous! The Multiplex charger would be able to charge them at 1C too!

You could still do 6s, but you would have to charge the packs separately (as 3s).

Yeah, I could do the separate 3s packs still, but I have a feeling that 5s on a 9xl will be more than anything I've ever driven anyway. Not looking for full on nutso speed (wouldn't mind that along the way though ;) ), but high acceleration, speed to hold off the nitros on the straight, and runtime to rival about 2 tanks of their fuel........think I heard that Squee or somebody got 25 minutes of runtime on GP3300's so I should be able to squeeze 30 minutes out okay.

[coolhandcountry]

It was gp3700 dabid. I get a bout 25-30 min on gp 3700 18cells. 16 is right at 25. That is with 16 51 gearing as well.

[Nick]

What motor setup was that coolhand?

[coolhandcountry]

the 9xl nick.

Yeah, I want the 9xl because of the runtime mainly, don't think it'd be too much of a slouch on 5s lipo either. :D

10 hours later......we got none of them. Not even our warehouse has them. Looks like we finally have a popular product! The best I could do right now is one of the 7.4v ones, and then special order 2 of the 11.1v ones and 1 of the 7.4v packs, but have no idea when they'd come in. In fact, a guy special ordered 10 of them tonight, so I'm kinda far down the list!

[Nick]

Whats the 9XL like in terms of power? I'm guessing like the 7XL (with 14 cells), 18cells is a low cell count for a 9XL, so gives good runtimes?