Lipos & chargers soon to be purchased – advice please!

[DomRC]

I’m shopping for a suitable lipo and charger to restart my club racing career….the batteries will be for a 2wd buggy (TBC which one!) and 7.5t motor. Searching through the threads it looks like a couple of stick packs between 3200 and 3800 and 25C upwards should be about right.. or could I get away with just one 5000mah and top it up?

As for chargers, I need a 12v/240v with balancer, but don’t want to fork out for a BC6… others from lrp, sigma etc seem to fit the bill, but why are they so much cheaper than the BC6 (just over half price?). Is it charging speed? If so what’s the difference time wise?

Cheers

[mark christopher]

bc6 has in built power supply and is the dogs danglies (you pay for what you get!!), two packs is better than one if time is limited as you have 10 mins extra (racing and marshalling ) where your second pack can still be on charge

[Medders]

Getting away with one pack is probably ok for the larger meetings where there are more heats and therefore time to charge between runs. I'm probably just going to go for one to start with, but I have some decent nimh packs I can use at club meetings if time is limited. As your starting from scatch may be best to go for two.

Charger is your choice, but you won't need anything that charges at more than 5 amps, which most should do.

[Chris Doughty]

the new LRP Quadra Pro charger is a great 12v/240v combined unit.

use it with the Trakpower balancer and you should be all set to go.

the Quadra Pro has 3 different profiles just like the Pulsar3, I have one set to 7.4v LiPo reciever pack, one of them for nmhi starter box batteries and the other one for 11.1v LiPo radio battery... easy!

[mark christopher]

dont forget the BC6 balances in one unit too!

[JCJC]

Are the lipos on the new list actualy in the shops ?