Anyone running heli lipos?

[whiplash]

I just picked up a couple E Flight 250 mah heli lipos at the LHS today and was wondering if anyone else is running them in their micro crawlers. They were cheap so I grabbed em, not too sure on how i am going to charge them tho. I have a E flight charger for my MCX2 but that is set up for 160 mah, can i just charge the 250's 2x on that charger to achieve a full charge? I have a Venom pro charger that'll go down to 1s and i can set the mah would that be too much for these batts? Any help would be apreciated

[The_Madness]

I use a Thunder AC6 for my batteries. They're $60 shipped from HobbyPartz.com and can charge down to 0.1 amps. They don't perfectly balance the packs, but it's pretty darn close for the money.

[willy1106]

I'm using some 3.7v 1 cell and makin 2 pack 800mah. They last a long time and only cost a few $ each on eBay. Walkera makes them I think.

[whiplash]

from what i read in the manual to my pro charger i can charge the 250 mah 1s packs no problem i just have to make an adaptor out of the included blank leads, LHS didnt have any leads with the ends I need in stock so Ill have to wait for them to come in. Being 1s packs theres no balancing involved just a really low charge rate, about .2 to .3 amps. the e-flight lipos are very small and light and hopefully will at least double my run times. Speaking of run times... it seems like the more I run my stock packs the better the runtime gets...are they getting conditioned or something? and thanks for the info so far!

[murderface]

Originally Posted by whiplash

Speaking of run times... it seems like the more I run my stock packs the better the runtime gets...are they getting conditioned or something? and thanks for the info so far!

I've actually noticed the same thing i started with like 10 mins then when i added more weight they dropped to about 6 but now im getting almost 15 mins with even more weight. Im wondering if its because im now using energizer max batts in the charger.

[whiplash]

I modded the stock charger to run on AC. Still getting short run times but they are getting better the more I use the batteries. Not real fond of the stock Nimhi packs ,heavy and short run times so I picked up the lipos. I know they will work and Ive run across pics of guys using them but I cant find the post now...