Just FYI on the LIFE batteries, there really is a night and day difference in the way they hold a charge vs. the nicad and nimh packs, especially from when I raced in the 90s through 2000. I’m running an 1800 mah pack and I can run all day with no issues and come back and it seems like I could go out and have at it for another day. I do top them off with a balanced charge on my Hitec smart charger, which takes a short time. Another note, after running my new Backlash a couple weeks ago, I somehow hit the switch and the receiver was left on until the battery went to 0 after a day or two. S***, ruined right? The charger would not even recognize it (set up to do a life balanced charge, that is). I did some searching and watched some you tube vids on a way to recover a life pack that’s been over discharged. This worked with lipo too. If you plug it in (without the balance plug) and set your charger to charge nimh batteries, in just a few minutes, you‘ll be showing 5 volts or more which is enough for the pack to once again be recognized and balanced charged as a life pack. From there, bring it up slow. I used like a .1 or.2 amp setting and the charger hit the programmed cut off time before the pack was all the way charged. After that I charged at like a 1 amp rate and it fully balance charged. I checked the volts on the 2 cells and they were even at 3.5 and the resistance was like 44 per cell. Any variances would show cell damage. The videos indicated this is how you tell how damaged your pack is. So all good there. It’s not charging up over 7 volts like it did but did get most of the way there. So guess I got lucky. I ran probably 4-5 full runs last Sunday no problems at all. Every pack is going to be different and maybe I had this degree of success because the pack was new but it worked, and as far as I can tell, any pack damage was minimal. Do this at your own risk, results may vary. I got another pack and I’ll use this one as a backup moving forward.
