Help me with a tamtech Ferrari

[olds45512]

its the best high current battery connector on the market, heres a like

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXKX39&P=ML

[czstycor/c]

yeah i got to put the male end on the esc

[olds45512]

yep thats correct, the charger should come with a wire with deans on it

[czstycor/c]

yeah it does, just wish i wouldn't have to change the esc plug, now i got to get a different cord for the charger and the dean plug.

waiting sucks.

why is that the best plug? just curious

[olds45512]

Most plug create resistence in the connection between the battery and the esc, deans plugs have a lower resistence than the wire does so it doesn't effect the flow of power from the battery to the esc. The battery plugs on a tyco are known as tamiya plugs and they are the worst, they rob all sorts of power and are being phased out in faver of lower resistence plugs.

[czstycor/c]

okay cool, i ordered 10 pairs. put the one on the speed control and one on the other battery. oddly enough it came with two batteries one with a dean plug the other with a banana plug.

got the adapter for the charger charger the battery, didn't take long but the battery was already at 3.7v a cell. do lipo's hold there charge really well? cause that battery has been sitting in a box for awhile!

[olds45512]

lipos while hold a charge forever, you could charge it today and 2 years from now it will still be fully charged.

[czstycor/c]

sweet! so they don't go bad with age like the nihm and nicd

[olds45512]

not really as long as you treat them right, like i said just make sure you dont drain them past 3.3v per cell or youll ruin them.

[czstycor/c]

doen't the speed control you pointed me to have a cut off? or do i need to get one of those too?

[olds45512]

From what I read on the website I believe it does put I would read thru the instructions to make sure, if not you can buy an buzzer that hooks to the balance plug that will buzz when the voltage gets low.

[czstycor/c]

PROTECTION FUNCTIONS:
1. Low voltage cut off protection: if the voltage of a lithium pack is lower than the threshold for 2 seconds the esc will cut off output power. Please note the esc cannot be restarted if the voltage of each cell is lower than 3.5v.

i believe that is the cut off

[olds45512]

Yep, some esc have the ability to turn it off to use nimh packs so just make sure its on and have blast.

[czstycor/c]

ahh that is that switch, it came with a tamiya plug, well it was a smaller version but that makes sense why i way on there now.

[czstycor/c]

so i put a deans plug on, binded the remote and receiver. which it said to turn it all off then but the receivers light started blinking again, and i have no steering or throttle. what did i do wrong?