Li-Po Battery and charger from Ebay: Supracing

[vietnamezerice]

well, I asked him a question about the charger and it took 2-3 days for him to reply and it reply was only two words

[dccracing]

well just me, but i don't really trust litiums from anyone but atomic mods and XI just because liths are delicate things. they are far less durable than normal batteries and because they could potentually be a fire bomb, i don't trust anyone else to sell me them.

[vietnamezerice]

you know people that had problems with their lithium batteries that didn't buy it from AM and XI?

[rycexboi]

Originally Posted by vietnamezerice

you know people that had problems with their lithium batteries that didn't buy it from AM and XI?

A few years ago I bought lithium from Jawdropracing I believe. Right now it still works like a charm. It just really depends how well you treat them.

[vietnamezerice]

that's cool, last night I fried a fet and my board after I installed my lipo kit from supracing... it was really fast until the fet burned a hole through

[dccracing]

... but you can run lithium on stock fetts just fine, let alone stacked.

[vietnamezerice]

hmm... i wonder what really happened then... before i ran it on lipo i noticed that the fet kinda looked funny... is it possible that the top fet blew out but the bottom one is still good?

[himynamebebrian]

did you figure it out? is the charger worth the price?

[vietnamezerice]

i installed a stock board that I got from XXXmodder and it seems to run fine.. i haven't ran it for a long duration though... I've been running it for a little bit on the carpet and feeling the fets to make sure that they're not too hot but then again i don't know how hot they're supposed to get... but so far so good

[himynamebebrian]

thanks i will be buying one shortly.

[himynamebebrian]

how long does it take for supraceing to get one of there chargers, (not batts) to you? they wont answer my message.

[rycexboi]

Originally Posted by himynamebebrian

how long does it take for supraceing to get one of there chargers, (not batts) to you? they wont answer my message.

i got it 3 days after I bought it

[Blackdragon]

I just got two chargers and three lith packs and they have not given me any trouble at all. Matter of fact I will be buying more in the future as they seem to work pretty good.

[SkylineLvr]

I ordered a li-po no drill set from Atomic Mods and haven't had a problem with it (I love that site, wish they had more for a gen 1 though). Though I did screw my board up when I tried to fix a bad connection where the lights plug in, but that's another story. I am getting a new one with a 2x2 stack, but that wont matter once I get a V2 board. I did not notice any heat coming from my fets. I was told that the stock fets would not be damaged by the li-po set. I also heard that if you use a 12v power adapter without a charger you will fry your li-po batteries. I didn't want to take the chance so I bought the charger too. Works great.

Word of caution when dealing with Supracing. I bought a switchblade chassis from him and got a shipping confirmation that only said that the seller has made an electronic notification to USPS, but has not dropped off the package. I emailed him about 20 times over 2 weeks, then had to call him to get it shipped out. He has a lot of good products, but beware you might have to get his number from ebay and call him. I might have been one of the unlucky one's that have had this problem with him (he has a 92% positive rating, with a few people that have had the problem I have had).

Sorry if this is a long post, but just want to try and help out an Xmodder in need.

[rycexboi]

I have a question, how much mAh should the charger be?

[SkylineLvr]

The charger I have is rated at 500 mah. Not sure what the max to have is, but the batteries I have are rated at 780 mah. I'm guessing I would want to have the charger at the same rating or lower.

[lol]

If the seller has more than 10 of the same item on sale then it isn't very good quality. Since they hastiliy put them together and mass make them to make a profit. very good ones are handmade instead of hastily smashed together. im not sure about the charger but i know the Li-Po's are hastily put together and aren't as good quality for example BLT's work. They work but they probally wont perform as good as better made li-po's.

[rsx racer]

I don't see how you can hastily make a battery pack where the same steps are involved.

Bulk order the batteries
Solder in series/parallel
Slap on a micro dean on the end

Atomic mods is simply too expensive. I know their lithium kit is superior but I can buy 5 packs for the same price at supracing, with or without chargers.

[rycexboi]

The chargers from Supracing were rated 200 mAh

[himynamebebrian]

i just got mine in. i plugged it in and connected it to my car. but the red light didn't go on, is that bad?