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Old 08-10-2011, 01:41 PM   #1
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Just got my new redcat in today and am wondering how long it takes to charge the battery with the factory charger.

Since it has no indicator light or anything im asking whats a general waiting time for the battery to be fully charged up.

20 min?

45 min?

1 hour?
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Old 08-10-2011, 02:32 PM   #2
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You are looking at a couple hours minimum..
I dont use the stock one, always had a diff one with a light...
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Old 08-10-2011, 02:41 PM   #3
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factory walwart is a 4 hour charger. i had to dig through the book to figure it out.
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Old 08-10-2011, 03:37 PM   #4
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It didn't take me but a week or so to get frustrated with the stock charger not having any kind of indicator telling you if the battery was charged, not to mention it takes forever to charge a pack. You can find better chargers for pretty cheap.
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Old 08-10-2011, 03:58 PM   #5
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It didn't take me but a week or so to get frustrated with the stock charger not having any kind of indicator telling you if the battery was charged, not to mention it takes forever to charge a pack. You can find better chargers for pretty cheap.

4 hours is forever???
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Old 08-10-2011, 05:06 PM   #6
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4 hours is forever???
4 hours is a lot if you have a couple of packs and each of them takes 4 hours to charge.
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Old 08-10-2011, 06:40 PM   #7
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i have three packs and two of them take 16 hours to charge....
walwarts are cheap
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Old 08-11-2011, 10:13 PM   #8
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charging batteries slowly is the best thing for the battery as well as running it down as far as possible. That being said, 4 hours is a long time to wait for 30 min of play time. You can get faster chargers cheaper, i think my integy charger was 50.00 and i can charge a 4500 in about an hour.
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Old 08-12-2011, 07:46 PM   #9
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I just ordered a 1300mh battery from ZNO.
http://www.zno-rc.com/store/index.ph...ct_detail&p=26


Ill also be getting the Thunder AC6 charger.
http://www.hobbypartz.com/thac6smbachw.html


Hopefuly this will solve my impatience to crawl
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Old 08-12-2011, 09:23 PM   #10
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Now, Im not a redcat guy, but frequent this forum because I like what you guys do...but wont 3s lipo burn up your ESC?
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Old 08-12-2011, 09:46 PM   #11
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Hope not!

Ive only had my redcat for about a week now
So, i know nearly nothing about what type of battery i need.
I went with the one from ZNO because they sell so many other redcat parts i assumed this battery would work well with it.

WHAT TYPE OF BATTERY DO I NEED?

Oh well, if it wont work with my ESC ill exchange it for they're metal gear servo.
The servos from the factory are pretty weak.
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Old 08-12-2011, 09:54 PM   #12
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Ya the factory servo's are...well...they suck HUGE. I burned one out when i took it out of the box! I locked the rear steer and went to a savox sc-0251. It works really well
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Now, Im not a redcat guy, but frequent this forum because I like what you guys do...but wont 3s lipo burn up your ESC?
It COULD mess up the ESC. The ESC is only rated to handle 8.4v...a 3s lipo is 11.1v. Plenty of guys in here run 3s lipos on the stock ESC and have good luck doing so, but if you do so, don't be surprised and pissed off if the ESC dies. This is not to say that anything will actually happen to the ESC, I just like to point out the voltage rating of the stock unit to hopefully prevent a venting post from someone who hooked up a 3s lipo and messed up their ESC.

heefageLA, the battery should work just fine, just be cautious like I said above. Also, do some research on charging/balancing/storing lipo batteries if you're not familiar with them.
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Old 08-14-2011, 08:19 AM   #14
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It COULD mess up the ESC. The ESC is only rated to handle 9.4v...a 3s lipo is 11.1v. Plenty of guys in here run 3s lipos on the stock ESC and have good luck doing so, but if you do so, don't be surprised and pissed off if the ESC dies. This is not to say that anything will actually happen to the ESC, I just like to point out the voltage rating of the stock unit to hopefully prevent a venting post from someone who hooked up a 3s lipo and messed up their ESC.

heefageLA, the battery should work just fine, just be cautious like I said above. Also, do some research on charging/balancing/storing lipo batteries if you're not familiar with them.
8.4 volts, not 9.4
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8.4 volts, not 9.4
Woops. Gotta love typos haha. Thanks for correcting.
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np, hate for a newbie to see that and fry his ESC, course i have been running 9.6 packs and had good luck do far, but i have herd of guys frying their unit.
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Old 08-18-2011, 08:08 PM   #17
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i have run 3 9.6 packs thru mine with no prob got a little more wheel speed out of it too.
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Old 08-19-2011, 05:43 PM   #18
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oh yeah, and torque, i can pull the front wheels off the ground
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