RC Cars

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A place for RC car/truck enthusiasts to have discussions, ask questions, chat, brag, etc...

This is meant to be sort of a Lemmy version of Reddit's r/rccars

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New community, welcome! (self.rc_cars)

submitted 1 year ago by MetalAirship to c/rc_cars

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Welcome! This is a brand new community so to get some posts rolling and some discussions started, feel free to post a picture/text list of some of the RC cars you have, which one(s) is/are your favorite(s), and why

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[–] MetalAirship 5 points 1 year ago

I'll go first - I've got only 4x4 short course trucks at the moment, but interested in branching out to other types of RC cars eventually. I have an Arrma Senton 3s, Traxxas Slash Ultimate, and Losi Tenacity SCT. I love them all but my favorite is the Losi simply because it handles the best around the tracks I usually race on. The Arrma is a close second mostly because it was my first RC truck and that thing really can (and has!) take a beating

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Subscribed to pull your community into lemmy.ml to help in discovery. Should show up if anybody searches for RC Cars there now

[–] MetalAirship 3 points 1 year ago

sweet, still kind of new to Lemmy so I wouldn't even have thought to do that. Thanks!

[–] CHollman82 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just completed my annual ritual of spending nearly $300 to replace the batteries in my 8S XMAXX because my dumbass once again forgot to put them in storage charge over the winter...

[–] MetalAirship 1 points 1 year ago

oof, luckily I have yet to totally ruin a battery by forgetting storage charge but I'm sure someday that will catch up to me lol. Those XAMXX's are pretty cool though, a little too expensive for me but if money were no object I'd have one already

[–] Mac 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got an old brushed Traxxas Rustler around somewhere. Recently I've been thinking about digging it out and driving it around.
I bet my batteries are wasted, though...

Any battery recommendations?

[–] MetalAirship 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice, I've considered getting one of those before. I usually use whatever is cheapest. I race with some other guys and we agreed to use 2s batteries only, I usually get the Zeee brand on amazon but thats only because its cheap. Really I would just get the cheapest lipo that has a hard outer shell and the right connector for your truck

[–] Mac 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll look into that!
Would i need to change the ESC or anything?

[–] MetalAirship 3 points 1 year ago

Depends what you have, make sure you don't put a battery with too many cells on it, and make sure the connector matches. If you have a weird proprietary connector, you can probably bring it to a hobby shop and they would switch it for you. The one near me charges like $5 to solder on a different (more common) connector - was worth every penny. IC5/EC5 seems to be the best choice at the moment for the 2-4 cell batteries