Receiver battery?

[penfold]

This may be a little bit of a basic question but what batteries are you guys using for the receiver in your vehicles?
I have a stock 6V 1000mAH battery but was wondering if anyone knew if you could use higher voltage batteries?

[fsmt4wd]

i know its possible to use lipos with volt regs on them, i use a 3300 nimh,but i wanna get the hpi hump pack next. im not too sure whats the deal with using a higher voltage but i think it will burn the servos out..

[sickboy]

hi penfold and welcome here
well im useing the hpi humpback 5cell batterie 6V 4200mha thats all you need you can go upto 7.2 V the thing is some servos(multiplex rhino) cant handle that much voltage so then you will need a 6 volt limiter they dont cost much
i used this system on my fg was happy but my volt limiter gave up on me so thats ment my multiplex servos were geting to much voltage and i fryed them bouth so i ditched them and now use the hump back batterie with hightec servos and now ive got no problems any more its up to you
and for lipo ooo thats going to cost ya

i also know alot of fs and mcd owners are uesing this set up and not to mention hpi baja owners to
hope this helps you

[penfold]

thanks for the help, looks like I'll be looking to get a better battery some time soon so I can get more run time.

[baryracing]

I was running the stock battery for a few weeks without any probs but have decided to upgrade to a 4600mah hump pack from powersliderc.com.au for AU$50, it comes with 2 leads one for the output and one for charging.

[rcrallyfan]

Jan 18, 2009 6:20:25 GMT -5 baryracing said:

upgrade to a 4600mah hump pack... , it comes with 2 leads one for the output and one for charging.

penfold - that's as good as it gets, you are in need of more mAh, not more voltage, and lipo is too much of a good thing here, it requires a voltage sensing cutoff device to prevent it from going under ~3V per cell, and a special electronic charger with balancer (if you don't have electric RC cars you don't need that stuff and its cost)... you definitely don't need all that trouble in your gas RC... I use lipo in my electric car because it can deliver bursts of well over 100 Amps to my BL motor, among other goodies, but it is a no no for receiver power in gas/nitro RC cars...

[rcrallyfan]

Here is a decent receiver battery deal based in the UK

At 17.50 with the current rate for the pound and reasonable Royal Mail costs it's rather hard to beat
stores.ebay.co.uk/component-shop