NiMH are pretty much the best, except perhaps for short runs where NiCad would offer an advantage with slightly more punch. And the Rayovac PS4 is great.
Keep your eye open for the 750 mah ones... crusader4x has them in Oregon, but they don't seem to have them here in Hawaii.... at least on this island....
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I got the 750 Mah Gold Peak (GP) brand batteries from ebay for about $0.80 each, they last pretty long on a mostly stock car, more than an hour. also, the Rayovac PS4 is the best... it charges my 750 Mah AAA batteries in less than half an hour, and my 1800 Mah AA in about 45. You can probably use regular Alkalines in the controller, i accidently left my controller on over night, and drained my first set, but those lasted over a month without losing almost any charge. Oh ya, someone told me that the 800 Mah AAA's are supposed to be coming out soon. keep your eye out for those too... might be lucky to snag a set.
Yeah, I ran my buddy Crash Rehven 's Nimh and they do make my car run a bit faster than my stupid alkaline batteries. It's sometime really painful to watch my car suffer to get going on those batteries. I will likely get some NIMH of my own. NIMH powers last throughout the run, the speed does not decrease like the alkalines.
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Manual Labor?? What's that?? I don't do Manual Labor!
I swear by these batteries.... Once you start you never go back to alks (unless you forget to charge the NiMHs)... THe Alks that I get (sponsored from work) are good for temporary Mini-z runs but lack the tong term power and get visibly slower by the minute.
the best part about NiMHs is that you don't help increase the landfill!
I aint bought alks in YEARS.. cant remember last time and when my NIMH aint charged Iusualy have another set that is partialy charged that will last about an hour , long enough to FILL another set of NIMH
My bad. I forgot to take into account that I live in EXPENSIVE Hawaii. You're probably right about the price of $30.00 in the mainland. Rayovac makes it.
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