Category: General Electric

Articles relating to all Electric RC vehicles

How to verify the C Rating of a LiPo Battery Pack

The true C rating of a LiPo battery

A LiPo Battery packs C rating is a very important specification on a LiPo. It represents the ability for a LiPo battery pack to provide continuous current. Although, the C rating alone does not tell you how much current you can get out of a particular LiPo. There is a calculation for this and that …

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Parallel or Series for a Setup using 2 LiPo Packs? (RC Cars, Airplanes, Boats)

Parallel vs Series of 2 LiPo Batteries

There are many RC’s on the market that are setup in such a way to use 2 LiPo battery packs. Theoretically, you can have any RC Airplane, Car, Boat, Helicopter or Drone setup using 2 battery packs. However, it is fairly common that RC manufactures would setup higher powered vehicles in this way. In this …

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How to Improve Cogging – ESC Motor Hesitation on Startup

Firstly, I have to state that cogging is actually not the term to use here. However, since this term is commonly used within the RC community, I want to be sure that all can still find the improvements to the motor hesitation that we will be covering. For a deeper understanding as to what cogging …

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Why use a Cap Pack on an RC Car? (Capacitor Pack)

A Capacitor pack is a fancy name for a bank of capacitors. That is a bunch of capacitors that are electrically wired together to form what we would know as a pack. Each capacitor is wired in parallel to each other. The idea is to place the cap pack as close as possible to the …

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Brushless Motors the Truth About Waterproof – Sensorless Sensored

In many applications of radio controlled vehicles, the brushless motor may come in contact with water. This could be as significant as being even fully submerged. Some manufactures of radio controlled vehicles advertise right on the box that the RC inside is waterproof. What does this mean? Is the brushless motor in the vehicle really …

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