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Martin,

A leisure battery would be preferable to a car battery – they are better able to withstand deep discharging. A typical LiPo battery is ~ 5,000 mAh (5 Ah) so you would want a leisure battery of at least five times that capacity. I've bought batteries from www.tayna.co.uk before and always been happy with the service. I currently have a Numax CXV24MF, which is rated at 86 Ah so easily enough for two weekends of racing (it's currently priced at £68.75 on www.tayna.co.uk).

See Gary's post above regarding tyres. I believe the silver compound is preferred when the track is somewhere between fully wet and fully dry.

I hope that helps.

Andy.

Originally Posted by MartP

Hi

Thanks to everyone for making my son Josh and I welcome as we looked around over the past couple of weekends.

We are building up to racing our out-of-the-box car in the next couple of weeks and going from there with our racing.

Two quick questions:

1. What capacity of 12v battery should we get to power the charger? I.e. what will we need to charge our lipo battery the 5 times or so it will need? Any recommendations as to where to buy it?

2. What 4wd tyres and inserts should we get? Our buggy is a 4wd and came with tyres out of the box but we thought we'd get some decent tyres on it from the outset. A gentleman did recommend some tyres to us but we forgot what they were by the time we got home! Schumacher mini spike silvers?

Thanks,

Martin.