Originally Posted by
TZona
im getting back to rc, i asked about a all around charger i will get a onyx 230. (thanks everyone!) now where do i start for lipos themselves? what dot the c stand for are there good and bad packs? are hard cased ones better(ie orion) what about charging and dis charging? can you recharge one right after you ran it? what does a balencer do? do you always need it? anything else i need to know
Hard cased are no diff except for the hard case and the connection. Your Onyx will handle the charging, you do not discharge lipo like you do with NiMH. Lipo in a proper setup will usually only get barely warm and you can recharge them as soon as you aer able too. There are good lipo cells and less good - price can be a good indicator of cell quality. The higher quality cells are matched when assembled and need less frequent balancing than the cheaper quality cells do. Eventually you will need to balance them all though.