OK, so I purchased a 1600 mah OFNA 5 cell pack for my matrix buggy. Pretty excited Got it home, peeled the body off and uh... The stock battery holder and the new battery pack have totally different connectors. Thus, the battery pack and the connector going to the on/off switch are not compatible. Anyone have any advice here? Are there adaptors or do I need to cut and splice? thnx!

Matty, no dont cut it!!! dont you do it!! look on the back of the plug you will see acouple slots that you can see the brass connectors well on those slots you will a couple plastic tabs, get your self a hobby knife( be very careful not to cut yourself) and slip the tip under the tab and lift while pulling the wires to slide them out. do the same to the other plug and swap the plugs being careful to take note of the orientation and which wire goes in to which slot.

I hope this helps!!

You could also just pick up a new switch from hitec or futaba to name a few. They will fit right in and have a charging jack so you don't have to remove the pack to charge it.

don't you think that it would cause to much heat charging it in the box? I'm all about getting up and running as fast as i can...battery will cool down faster outa the box and not get as hot charging it out of the box....if you got the time i guess it's a good idea...but i'm making a adpter for my ofna hump pack...that and i don't want one of those packs to pop in my truck....

i could be wrong...i'm just going by my own crazy idea of logic so take if for that...

Actualy if you charge the reciever packs with the wall charger they hardly build up any heat at all. if you want to use a rapid charger follow the instructions that come with the pack and the heat is very minumal. if no instructions came with your pack normaly just set the charger for .5 to 1.0 amp and you should be fine.

charging the battery in the box will not be a problem... never charge reciever packs at more then 1 amp.

u can pick up an adapter that specifically is for that for cheap on the bay, plus cheapbatterypacks.com (i think....its one of the sites on the ads here) has a section that lets you make adapters.