⚡ Batteries Guides
4 guides in this topic.
Battery Connectors: XT60, Deans, and Why You Standardize
Your new pack's plug doesn't match your car — this happens to everyone. What the connector actually has to do, the common types and their current ratings, why standardizing your whole fleet on one plug ends the problem forever, and the polarity mistake that starts fires.
SAFETYYour Charger: What Every Number on the Screen Means
Current, voltage, capacity returned, internal resistance, balance and storage mode — every number explained, plus the two settings that destroy packs, the parallel-charging rules, and how to read a pack's health before it strands you.
Measuring Your Own Power System: IR, Sag and Amp Draw
Stop trusting the sticker and measure what is true. How to baseline and track internal resistance, run a proper sag test, and find your car actual amp draw so you can size a pack with arithmetic instead of guesswork. Three tools, less than the price of one pack.
LiPo, NiMH, LiHV and Li-ion: Reading a Battery Label From Nothing
Every number on an RC battery label explained from scratch — chemistry, cell count, mAh, C-rating and connectors — plus why the C-rating is a claim and internal resistance is the measurement that tells you the truth.