Jester you are definitely entitled to your opinion. OTOH I suggest you think about the numerous ways to avoid accidents such as a battery jumping out of a batt. box. I can solder. I can wrap tape around the batteries in the box. I can clean contacts every flying session, but I don't! HA! I don't worry or find small points to make me look smart. I simply pass on easy ways to accomplish things that I have experimented with.. Since I have no yearning for electric motors outside a boat, I don't think you find me telling folks how to do electric airplanes. So perhaps the readers may get a better chunk of information here if we all simply discussed the pluses and minuses of methods we use and/or used, and how things worked for us as an individual. That way we all have a chance to learn, rather than simply plant ourselves as some kind of expert. "It's not so much what we DON'T know that can hurt us as it is that which we know for sure that ain't so."

Yes sir that's me sort of Solinski and TORKS is NEAR Lake Hefner, in it is a bit damp

You don't remember me probably but I was a member when I was 11 years old. I had the Goldberg kit and the j3 cub and I beleive you helped me with my Aerostar .40 wing dyhedral brace back then. What a small world.

Welcome back!

I have been flying large heli for many years and just now building a trainer nitro plane, and you probably have settled on a decision.

I will say this, I have never had good luck with nimh batts they self discharge and generally have been unreliable in the helis. BECs from the motor to the radio servos ( electric powered helis) also can fail dropping volts to the RX in flight.

A123 batts are my best option and will power all my helis and future planes here is some good info on them.

http://hangtimes.com/a123_batteries_for_giants_faq.html

Well after everyones help I decided to go glow