My battery choice would be SMC, price and quality are about as good as you can get, so what receiver do you have, some of the spektrum receivers had a button to push down, and wished you where closer, it is so hard to diagnose problems without being able to touch them.

Their are a lot of decent radios out their, currently I have the spektrum dx4s and the airtronics mt4 both well under 200 dollars, have yet to use the Futuba radio.