Originally Posted by
corvettez06
You didn't damage the ignition. The older 4.8v-6.0v ignitions work fine with 6.0 v nimh and 6.6v LIFe. I have run many this way.
So you can tell by watching that video that there is nothing wrong with the ignition?
These older ignitions don't like heat, you may get away with it, but may damage them with unnecessarily high voltage, causing them to get hot, if it's mounted in an area of little airflow this will make it worse too.
Here is the rcexl info for the older ignition
http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rc...62922401,d.dGI
BTW I'm not saying the ignition is fried, just another thing to eliminate.
Kmyers has a good point, an old battery may not have the mah available to supply the ign at full throttle (that's in the manual too)