High Capacity RC Batteries: The Upgrade Worth Making I burned through three battery packs in one Saturday before I finally admitted my problem wasn’t my RC car, it was my battery. High capacity RC batteries sounded like a simple fix, and in some ways they were, but nobody warned me about the trade-offs that came … Read more
I killed my first LiPo pack in about six weeks because nobody told me storage voltage was a real thing. So when a buddy at the track handed me a Li-Ion pack and said “just try it,” I figured it was worth burning a Saturday to find out if the hype was real. 👉 Li-Ion … Read more
Fast Charging RC Batteries Without Ruining Them. I still remember sitting at the charging table one Saturday morning while everyone else was already out driving. My battery still had almost an hour to go, and I kept wondering if there was a way to speed things up without ruining it. After a lot of trial … Read more
I’ll be honest—this one’s a little embarrassing. I’ve been into RC cars for a while, and I always thought I had the basics down. Charge the battery, run the car, repeat. Nothing complicated, right? Well… not exactly. A few weeks ago, I made a mistake so simple that I didn’t even realize it was a … Read more