guss2009

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I have the RTR losi starter box and bought 1 of the Team Losi 4S Li-Poly Starter Box Battery Pack 20C (14.8V/2200mAh). I see that the start box has 2 plugs to plug 2 batteries. My question is should i use one of the losi lipo battery or should i used 2, on the starter box? Im not sure if the 2200mah is good enough to turn on my engine.

smoothie7

iTrader: (13)

The two plugs are for nimh batteries if you would choose to use them. In that case you would need two batteries. Since you are running a lipo starter box battery, you only need one. Are you sure there is not a plug for just the lipo battery?

guss2009

iTrader: (266)

The starter box is new so the 2 plugs are there for the nimh batteries i dont see no other plugs for the lipo battery unless im miss looking at something. I think the plugs the box has are the tamiya plugs.

lil-bump

iTrader: (89)

Do you have a 13vdc starterbox or 6vdc. I hope it's a 13vdc or higher. the two plugs are used to run (2) 7.2vdc batteries in series. If you are going to use a Lipo battery you will not use either one. You would run the lipo directly to where the two plugs terminate at.

guss2009

iTrader: (266)

I dont know what you mean by 13vdc or 6vdc starterbox. I have the RTR blue starterbox.

CMaD

iTrader: (4)

cut the factory plugs off the starter box and put whatever is on your lipo on the starter box. I put a turnigy 2600mah 4s lipo and low voltage alarm on mine with traxxas plugs and its got tons of power and its way lighter

smoothie7

iTrader: (13)

I personally bought the newest losi starter box and went with the losi starter box lipo. I put the thing together this weekend. Both the lipo and the starter box had tamiya plugs on them. The starter box has two tamiya plugs coming out of it. One of them you use to plug the lipo into and with the starter box came with a "dummy" tamiya to put into the other spot. Mine works fine. Hope this helped

guss2009

iTrader: (266)

Yes I have the newest losi box and the losi starter box lipo. They both have the Tamiya plugs. The box has 2 plugs but I didn't get the dummy tamiya plug. What im thinking of doing is cutting oneside of the tamiya plug on the box and connecting one negetive wire and the positive wire in one tamiya plug. That way I don't have 2 connections just one. I think this connection should work. What you guys think?

smoothie7

iTrader: (13)

I don't see why it would hurt anything. Obviously the only reason the second one is there is if you want to run 2 nimh batteries. I am actually thinking about converting the main set over to deans connectors. Any reason why this would be a bad thing?

Duster_360

iTrader: (21)

None that I can see.....Tamiyas are cheap and with their resistance, you will melt them if you're moving much current through one.

smoothie7

iTrader: (13)

I would assume that the tamiya plugs would be fine for this application but I don't want to have to make another adapter to work with my charger as everything else has deans already on it.

Duster_360

iTrader: (21)

I would be doing the same thing.

After melting a few tamiyas, I just don't trust them.