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

  • MetalAirship@lemmy.worldOPM
    5·
    2 years 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

  • Barbarian
    4·
    2 years ago

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

  • Chris@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 years ago

    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@lemmy.worldOPM
      1·
      2 years 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@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    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@lemmy.worldOPM
      3·
      2 years ago

      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

        • MetalAirship@lemmy.worldOPM
          3·
          2 years 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