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…
Somewhere between my third stripped diff and the moment my neighbor asked why my backyard sounded like a monster truck rally, I realized I needed to actually figure out which of these two beasts deserved a permanent spot in my garage. Both the Arrma XRT and the Traxxas X-Maxx promise the same thing on paper:…
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…
You can buy the fastest RC car on the market, throw on expensive upgrades, and spend way too much money on aluminum parts you probably didn’t actually need (ask me how I know), but if your charger is bad, the whole RC experience gets annoying fast. A lot of beginners focus entirely on the RC…
