alternative to ib 4200?????

[big air]

is there a real alternative to ib 4200???? im in the market for some new cells and im just about to start doing off road,

if you had say 2 identical buggy's same motor gearing etc and done a drag race,

one car had ib 4200 the other ep 4200 would there be a difference, or am i stuck with ib's at the minute creeping on my tipy toes

i will be running a 5.5 brushless system so am i right in thinking run times will be close if i use lets say 3300, or will i be dumping all over the place.

and does a buggy zap more power from the cells than a touring car


if i do go for the ib's does anyone know where i can get a good "safe" from to keep them in while i charge them

[MK999]

Wickes have yale personal safes on offer atm, £25

[KyoshoK]

in a mod race, most of us use only around 3000mah, even a good gp3300 pack we can make run time. there is usually at least 1000mah left. run time is not issue

[sosidge]

It's early days, but the new East Power 4200 MII cell seems to be close to the IB in terms of voltage and also a lot more reliable. Good value too.

Much-More Racing UK are now supplying them to the UK shops.

The first batch they got in doesn't suffer from the dead cell issues the IB's do (as many as 10% of factory fresh IB's are down to 0V by the time the reach the distributors, a lot of the cells can be brought back to life without any long term effects but it is still less than ideal).