Originally Posted by
chris moore
Perhaps OD would be so kind as to post up some pics of this, would be interesting to see. As to someone making a saddle lipo I dont really see the demand, all the new cars (BMI, 12r5, CRC) except the serpent and xray are all 1cell lipo frendly. I just cannot see how a battery company can make enought profit for such a small segment of the market.
I know he did not document the procedure in film but it’s really pretty easy. The batteries used in this procedure, are not in a hard case so unwrapping them was easy. Once apart, it was just a matter of soldering new wires to the existing, copper, solder tabs. All of the lipos I have disassembled have the wires welded to the battery tabs as solder will not stick to the material used in making lipos. He just soldered some new wires to the copper welded to the lipo tabs, put some heat shrink around them and there you have a 3.7v lipo saddle pack. As I said, they are a little longer than I would like but not as long as a SMC 1c lipo. As soon as I get my new Novak booster which shipped out today, I will put them in a car and try them out. Of course I always charge in a sack.
I will see if OD can take a picture of one of the packs as my camera does not take good close ups.