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Batteries for Lightning EPX standard - 6/20/2012 5:39 PM   
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  I am a newbie to the hobby and bought a Lightning to get started. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the best battery is for the model. It came with an 1800mah battery, but I bought some 3000mah. The engine burned out after a couple runs with them. The ESC is rated to 3600. Not sure why...like I said, I am a newbie! Haha! Thank you all for your time and assistance.


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RE: Batteries for Lightning EPX standard - 6/20/2012 7:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		I would stick with the smaller batteries. My daughters Volcano Epx burned the motor in 4 packs. Redcat actually sent me an email saying brushed motors run very hot and to keep the run times to 6-7 minutes. Can you imagine that... 6-7 minutes. I would have never purchased it if I knew this ahead of time. So far I've had no complaints with any of their models , but this is the last brushed model I will buy from them

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RE: Batteries for Lightning EPX standard - 6/21/2012 1:44 AM   
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Yeah, its what I've learned too...heat issue. Imagine all that juice flooding into that motor...it'll heat up. Do you have a heat sink?

But still, run into the ground then let it cool off and slap another battery pack in there and let it loose!

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RE: Batteries for Lightning EPX standard - 6/21/2012 6:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thank you both!!!  Dads like rc too- 6-7 minutes!? That's just when I'm starting to have fun. Not right at all. Thanks for the advice! I'll keep it to the 1800. I just bought a new motor. When that goes, I'll look into the brushless.madweasel- No heat sink. I'll probably burn the new motor out purposely so I can upgrade to brushless. Cheers to you!

 Again, thank you both!!!




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RE: Batteries for Lightning EPX standard - 6/21/2012 12:56 PM   
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Thank you both!!!  Dads like rc too- 6-7 minutes!? That's just when I'm starting to have fun. Not right at all. Thanks for the advice! I'll keep it to the 1800. I just bought a new motor. When that goes, I'll look into the brushless.madweasel- No heat sink. I'll probably burn the new motor out purposely so I can upgrade to brushless. Cheers to you!

 Again, thank you both!!!



yeah thats crazy to think you would only want to run it 6 or 7 minutes. in my son brushless Caldera we run packs back to back without any heat issues.

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RE: Batteries for Lightning EPX standard - 6/22/2012 5:53 AM   
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