Benny Boy

Are the venom racing 3600 batteries any good.

shenlonco

My Feedback: (2)

yes but why waste the extra money i have the venoms and i got these also they are just as good and you can buy 2 3300 packs for about $30.00!!!



[link=http://cgi.ebay.com/2-NiMH-Battery-Pack-for-RC-Car-Tamiya-7-2V-3300-mAH_W0QQitemZ230071960820QQihZ013QQcategoryZ34063Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem]3300 battery packs[/link]

ah64

Watch E-bay if you can they sell them in 2 packs for about 30 w/shipping, or you could get the Venom 4600

swathdiver

Benny, when are you gonna use the "search" button? We don't mind answering your questions, if you simply scrolled down you'd see that we answered it twice already this week.


I like the Venom 3600s, that's all I use. I try to buy the ones with the "noodle" wire because not all the battery packs are the same length so I use the shorter ones in the Tigers and the limber wires help. I get 3+ hours on them. The 3300s can be had for a little bit less, but I wanted all my tanks to have the same juice.

Now, your next question is about a good battery charger right? I like the DuraTrax Piranha. It's about $50 at Tower and has an LCD screen.

Richard L.

My Feedback: (24)

I have DuraTrax IntelliPeak AC/DC Deluxe Pulse Charger, which cost a little more but comes with an AC power supply and has "Zero Delta V" peak detection technology for Ni-MH's: [link]http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXUF45&P=0[/link]

Yes, the "Search" function is one of your best friends.

GD Dave

Just bought some of the 3300 packs, lets see if they get here in two days as advertised.

The_Stuff

I just picked up a Venom 3600 today. cant say i got a good deal on it though ..... the place was expensive as he-double-hockey-sticks!!! cost me 50 bucks cdn. now that i looked through the forum, i see how bad that is.


anyhow, anyone know what the charge time would be with the HL charger? I assume 5-6 hrs if not longer.



EDIT:

I see you are not supposed to use "trickle" chargers with the venoms... anyone got a link or tell me whats the best to use? that is if the HL one isnt good to use.

Harquebus

If you want to know for certain, then take the stated capacity of the battery (in maH) and divide it by the output of the charger (mine states it is 400maH). That should give you the charge time in hours.

But by all accounts, you should have ditched that wall charger by now. [:'(]

-Harq

James S.

Depending on budget you can get cheap delta peak chargers for 5-7 cell nimh for around 15.00 us (plus shipping)
http://www.amondotech.com/index.asp?...S&Category=238

Personally I think if you have the money you should get a better charger that will handle 4-8 cells so you can charge your transmitter packs as well ($35) or lipos so that if you decide to get lipo packs you don't have to upgrade your charger as well this will run you around 100.00 ( I use a MRC Super Brain 977 with maxamp 4400 NMiH packs in my tanks and I run 2100mah NMiH packs in my radios)

swathdiver

Venom would consider the wall charger a trickle charger. The minimum charging amps is 3 max. HLs are either 250 or 500 milliamps.

I didn't want to spend a fortune, this one plugs into the wall and has served me well:

[link=http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXCLD5&P=ML]Duratrax Piranha[/link]

Richard L.

My Feedback: (24)

There is a trade off when charging a battery pack: the shorter the charge time, the shorter the life expectancy of the battery pack.

If you are not in a hurry, then it's best to charge the battery pack at 1/10th its capacity overnight.

The_Stuff

well then with the HL charger thats 9 hours. i have no trouble with that long, just i dont want to hurt the battery. the first link was awesome, but tooooo many hoops to jump through for shipping to Canada.




EDIT:

did 1 better. found the correct venom brand charger on ebay for 21 shipped. sorry guys, but it was the last one i found on ebay.ca :P