View Full Version : PolyQuest 4400 mah Li-Po in my T-4!


Craps
05-15-2005, 07:21 AM
I just got WOWed Big Time yesterday doing some testing. I had bought 2 PolyQuest 4400 mah packs that I put together to see how long they would run when I decided to split them apart and run just one pack. I have been leary to do this because I just thought it would make the truck too light. Boy was I ever wrong about that!

The 4400 mah li-po weighs about 1/3rd of a nickel pack and half of the 8000 packs I had been using. My T-4 woke up and was the most agile I had ever seen it jumping and turning with acceleration that will be an advantage in the qualifiers. The indoor track I tested at is a real tight track with short straights, so run time was not a real issue without long straights, but I ran at least 20 minutes with this pack using my brushless set up.

I have a new battery for the 5 and 6 minute qualifiers and races under 15 minutes now! It maybe able to handle 20 minute mains too!

starluckrc
05-22-2005, 05:12 PM
Hate to say I told you so (lol)! I think the perfect compromis is a 3S4400mah pack on a lower kv motor. If we could just get an Extreme II at around 3200kv, we would really have the ultimate setup.

cola
05-22-2005, 06:38 PM
Does your track allow you to run lipo's? My track doesn't. :cry: So there making me run with the gas trucks. Mabey I'll be able to beat them. I ahev a 4400 also and it made a big diffrense in my mf1. Have fun.

Thanks,
David

Craps
05-31-2005, 08:34 AM
Does your track allow you to run lipo's? My track doesn't. :cry: So there making me run with the gas trucks. Mabey I'll be able to beat them. I ahev a 4400 also and it made a big diffrense in my mf1. Have fun.

Thanks,
David

Most of the electrics in this area (Charlotte, NC) have switched to Li-Pos and we race with the gas trucks if numbers are low in either class at a track, but if numbers are big enough for both, we split them and the electrics still run in a longer main that varies from 12 minutes at the indoor track on a Wednesday night race to most outdoor tracks we run 20 minute mains.

Last Sunday, we let the gas trucks run with us. I TQ'ed and won the race by 2 laps in a 15 minute race (threat of rain shortened race).

After further testing, I have went back to my TP8000-2S4P Thunder Power battery for the bigger tracks due to forward bite issues, but the tight short straight a way indoor track, I will use the 4400 PolyQuest for those tight turns with a lighter truck.

Dave Mac
10-04-2005, 07:31 PM
Sounds like a unfair advantage letting electrics run with gas LO
Im gonna havve to get me a electric lipo LO

starluckrc
10-05-2005, 07:43 PM
Just let me know when you are ready. I've got some new more affordable options now too.....but you know what everyone up their is running ;) .

t4racer
10-19-2005, 02:34 PM
So how cheap can I get a lipo for that will run the neo for a little over 10 minutes. Right now with unmatched 3300 I get a little under 9.