dennis72

Greetings,

ed1380

Inside that standard battery pack is just 8 cheap AA's. IF you can get it apart without mangling it up (extremely difficult) then you can just replace the batteries inside and tape it up. you can even charge it with the stock charger. just will take a bit longer

SavedONE

-you can buy a set of connectors, &wire them from the electronics board, & then use regular 9.6v
pks., w/plugs. Then buy-up good Ni-Mh Radio Shack 9.6v packs, they have ones up to 1500-1650
Mah, so they'll save you from needing to build packs. Tho, on RS's site, you'll be able to find the
exact 9.6v (pk. shape), cell holder, &can buy 2000-2100Mah Ni-Mh cells (may wanna get
a peak charger tho). Anyway, adding the ability to use a connector to use better prebuilt pks. is what
I'd do, the only thing to do then is add a mounting setup, like velcro.

-BTW, Ihad the Ford p/u of the same setup you have. The instructions req the first 3 charges be like
8 hours, this conditions the battery, then after that, ea. charge is to be 4hrs.-the pk. gets better after the
first 3-4 charges. I didn't know if you read the instructions, be sure to do that, or look on New Bright's site
they have a section on help (I think).

The Jackalope

I took my New Bright pack batt pack to a local battery shop......called....the battery shop.    He said if he made me a new one I'd need to buy a new charger.    so......

He openned up the stock battery case,  pulled out the AA's that were in it  (600mah)   and put in some good nimh AA's (1800 mah) all for about $35.00 CAD.    And it still uses the NEW BRIGHT charger.

The Jackalope

all above being said, Heres another little project ive done.

My buddy fixes aircraft electrical systems. he cringes whenever I start with "guess what I modified......"

jeffescortlx

I have a feeling the battery was'nt properly charged.
With that itybity New Bright motor, even a 800mah battery should get 30-40 minuets of run time.

Spiike

neg. the stock 600mah battery only gave me 15 minutes tops on full charge. thats cold temperatures and rough snow terrain. i have 1000mah batteries, 3 of them, i run 1 and get about 45 minutes run time in cold temp. in rough terrain. if i run all 3 in parrallel i get over 2.5-3 hours run time.

Chris Morris

I have this same New Bright battery but don't have a charger for it. Someone gave a truck to my sister in law who then gave it to my daughter with the battery fully charged a couple of years ago. It wasn't until a few months later that I realized there was no charger for it. I figured I'd find a charger for it eventually but haven't had any luck. I asked the sister in law to see if the people still had it but she dosen't see the people any more.

I have another battery for another truck that works with the truck given to my daughter so I don't really need this one. My question is if I were to figure out how to open the casing, could I use the batteries inside for other electronic items such as a radio? I have a AA charger for Ni-Cd/ Ni- MH. If it's possible to use the batteries inside, does anybody know how to get the thing open without damaging any batteries.

Thanks for any help or advise.

Prohack01

Hi Chris, you should be able to simply slice the plastic case witha razer, if it is the exact same pack, but dont take my word for it, do alil more research on the google about the pack and batteries, the batteries in the pack will have tabs soldering them together (flat metal peices / conductors), which you would have to de solder to get the cells into a regular charger, also from what it seems like above the batteries are fairly low capacity, 600 to 800 mah, this is low for an AA size, im guessing they are NICD not Nimh, finally, as they are acouple years old they would most likely need to be cycled quite a bit to be brought back to life if possible, I dont think its worth the trouble as NIMH batteries are pretty cheap now, maybe a few board members can verify... also this thread is over 2 years old, im not up on the board rules, I've been a lurker here just reading and learning for over 5 yrs... but some forums dont like users bumping threads after so much time,

Chris Morris

Thanks for the information my battery is actually NIMH 9.6V 1250 MAH I didn't realize the battery that this thread was started with was NiCD, but it is otherwise the same.