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RE: Zippy's lipo's - 7/21/2008 3:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		I do scale and sport flying and as far as Amps goes, the heavier the body the more amps being pulled by the motor. granted the scale bodies Im flying arent bricks but they do add more weight than a pod and boom. I have looped and rolled scales such as my MD500 with no problems. It dosent seem like the guy was referencing hard 3D but getting a descent set of batteries. All Im saying is that they are worth the money. Not everyone is into 3D, some people just might like to see their heli fly like the big boys.

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RE: Zippy's lipo's - 7/21/2008 9:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		No hardcore 3D, just some big "8" manuvering and some uncontrollable inverted flying high in the sky. Compare to the Outrage 25c I have, the Zippy 20c do have less flight time then my Outrage, roughly around 1min+ less before I get down to 3.74v+- per cell. Both are 2200mah. But well, the Outrage cost me $60 which equal to almost 3 of my Zippy. I doubt there are any 1 Branded Lipo out there can have flight time more then 3 Zippy given the same "mah"

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RE: Zippy's lipo's - 7/21/2008 10:41 PM   
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Thats true Tex but this is in most cases a beginners heli. Many people seem to have cut their teeth on a King FP or CP then moved up to a Trex Raptors etc. Nice thing about these little kings is they don't have many high priced problems and they are great "bumper car" helis, crash it and you dont break the wallet repairing it. This train of thought that its easy to fly and cheap to repair (compared to say a trex) makes you more likely to try up the learning curve with trying new manuvers that you may be a little timid to try with a Trex 450 V2 at more then a 500$ investment.

I see what you are saying, but you probably didn't know it cost the same to repair a 600 as it does the HBK. Granted, this does not include blades.

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RE: Zippy's lipo's - 7/22/2008 1:40 AM   
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Don't forget to include the other more costly crash items .. big $ goodies, like all the electronics (servos, esc's, motors, Li-po's). Big price difference in frame replacement cost from smashing my HBK2 frame compared to my larger helis..
There are little cheaper parts that are close, but main gears are never a big worry regardless of the heli.. but for the most part I agree that parts like those are pretty much a wash and that the Trex 600 and other large helis are fairly inexpensive to fix for what they are.. but the items I mentioned above aren't cheap and the initial price for them or the heli isn't either.
If you can seriously find the expensive parts (that really kill to replace in a major crash) for the Trex 600 at the same price of the HBK2 equivalents,.. lemme know.

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RE: Zippy's lipo's - 7/22/2008 2:17 AM   
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RE: Zippy's lipo's - 10/26/2008 9:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		I don't know much about helicopters (yet) but I do know that after having a $120 Thunder Power Li-Poly battery swell horribly after 5 uses, and watching a small fire at my buddy's house caused by an EnerLand (a subsidiary company owned by A123 Systems) Li-Po I asked my local hobby shop owner about Brand name Li-Po's vs Zippy and HE Li-Po's he said he has seen nearly every "so called" Brand name Li-Po battery swell and/or "puff" as often as he has the generics. So I ordered a $30 HE (Chinese I believe)11.1v 2200 mAh 20c Lipo and a $27.99 Zippy-r 2200mAh 3S1P 30C and have at least 35 cycles on each with no ill effects, (no swelling or puffing) using the same charger/balancer and same RC/ESC/Motor that I used with the Thunder Power.

The thing that gets me the most is there are far more positive reviews of the "generics" than there are bad ones, but because they are cheap when something goes wrong they are labeled junk and a high buck brand name battery with the same problem will be labeled an unfortunate statistic.
Just my $0.02 worth...

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RE: Zippy's lipo's - 10/27/2008 8:01 PM   
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RE: Zippy's lipo's - 10/28/2008 12:15 AM   
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RE: Zippy's lipo's - 10/28/2008 1:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		Not sure about the EC but Zippy-r batteries are made in Korea (Top of the line Zippy) Zippy-h are made in China I believe, at any rate they are Zippy's method of identifying country of manufacture and grade of battery...

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