recomendations??
 

hey can anyone recommend a good stick battery that will last quite a long time? mine only goes for 30 mins.

thanks in advance

Bigger mah=longer runtime...

Traxxas makes like a 8800 and 10000mah battery in I believe 3s. That will last you a looonnngggg time "thumbsup" good luck fitting it anywhere "thumbsup"

sorry to thread jack but i have an xr 10. what is a decently big battery for it?

Likely going much above 1000mah will get hard to fit. Look up some packs & check the dimensions, see what may fit your rig.

Little packs are easier to fit. and small lipos can be had cheap here: Shop for RC Hobby Parts and Upgrades - Digital Servos, Brushless Motors, ESC, LiPo Batteries/Chargers for RC Helicopters, RC Planes, RC Cars, Robots
get several, carry them in your pocket and they are easy to change out. They also have 2/3a nimh packs if you don't have the equipment for lipo.
Someone on here made a great argument for going this route: if you only have one big battery and you smoke it, you're done. If you have several smaller ones, it is just a small pause to switch batteries.

I use a 1750mah 2/3a battery pack, easy to fit, cheap, and I have a few of them. They give me a little better than 30 mins

I just bought an XR10 myself
when i'm ready, i'm thinking on this battery for it
LiPo 1300 3-cell 11.1v Battery Pack, LiPo 1300mah Packs, Lipo-1300-111-Pack

I am going to look into it further though, i have seen some smaller than that one

ok thanks my battery is 7200mah i think off the top of my head. but i only get like 30-35mins maybe a little more at apush depending on what i am doing. I have never done a comp but I thought they lasted a whole day so surely I will be recharging all day??

i dont know of really and nimh packs rated that high usually only 5000 or so, but ive seen lipos that high or higher but if it is 7200mah u should get a WHOLE lot more run time than 30 or so minutes if running any crawler related motor 27t+

You are AT a comp all day, but not likely RUNNING all day. In our local group, we typically run 3 courses/class (I run 2.2), each course is 5-6 minutes.
This, I need under 20 minutes of runtime/class. In my 2.2 dual ESC MOA, I run 1350mah 3S LiPO packs and can do ~2 courses.

As I stated before, most XR-10 chassis are very tight, anything over ~850-1000mah 3S will be hard to fit.

540 crawler motor I get like 45 mins but with my stock tamiya motor its like 30 mins?

for whatever battery you actually have the run time difference is fairly normal as the tamiya 27t will draw more amps than a 35-55t motor. based on those run times and whether or not your pack is still good i would say you have about a 3000mah pack give or take

sorry its a 55t motor and it is a 3000 mah battery that probably answers my own problem Doh!