ZIPPY Flightmax 5000mAh 3S1P 20C (USA Warehouse)

 rudyauction509 45 points

so basically its underrated. That's rare and a good thing. Most companies would sell a 4500mah as a 5000mah.

 Mario 6 points

Yes. This one is spec'd to provide 100A continuous, peaking at 150A (10-20sec burse).

 rudyauction509 45 points

I used 2 in series in an electric go-cart and pulling 80 amps continuous they barely got warm. I'd say the spec's are accurate.

 TeslaBEM 36 points

I would not recomment doing this. Lead-Acid batteries can handle easily the high currents and stress the car puts on it, but LiPo's are more fragile than that.

 S2K Matt 64 points

Yes you can connect two batteries together. If you wire two batteries in series (ESC black to black of batt1, then red of batt1 to black of batt2, then red of batt2 to ESC red) you will get a total battery of twice the voltage, same capacity and same C rating. If you wire two batteries in parallel (ESC red to both batts red, and ESC black to both batts black) then you will get a total battery of double the capacity, same voltage same C rating. This is done in series by many people in RC bo

 Ryan 1 points

Yes you could also find a plug adapter that you can plug both batteries into the one truck witch is what I do to power my big truck.

 capnswanny 1 points

It is perfectly safe to wire the LIPO batteries together, we do it all the time with our RC boats. You can wire the batteries in parallel to extend run times at the same voltage (red to red, black to black) or you can wire in series to add the two voltages together (as explained by S2KMatt). I would recommend building a harness with conenctors to do this so you don't have to modify the batteries. This also allows you to charge the batts as before and use them individually when you want. As far a

 Aulsie 9 points

*Matt**- if you wire in parallel the C rating is also doubled (actually it is the sum of the two batteries)

 Taft 5 points

Aulsie, I'm not sure that's correct. Connecting two batteries in parallel doubles the capacity, which doubles the battery's max safe discharge rate. It doesn't double the C-rating. If it doubled the C-rating and capacity, then wiring two batteries in parallel would effectively quadruple the safe discharge rate. Making this assumption could be dangerous. (P.S. I'm not an expert, so please let me know if I'm off base. That is entirely possible!)

 rudyauction509 45 points

I used 2 in series on my electric gokart and used 2 cheap cell meters with low voltage alarms and when the buzzer sounded I pushed the thing home. Riding that last 50 feet after the alarm will kill your batteries. But mine lasted over a year running 2 cycles per day. (series = b1 red to vehicle, b1 black to b2 red, b2 black to vehicle)

 S2K Matt 64 points

These have bullet style connectors, they are called HXT connectors

 fb39ca4 19 points

You mean the type shown in the picture? Good. I heard that other batteries of this size, despite being advertised as having those connectors, came with 5.5mm connectors and no housing.

 Andrew 1 points

Mine came with 4mm hxt plugs as shown.

 _Blade 43 points

Mine came in today. It weigh 171 g.

 Tim.Lynx 1 points

Thanks for the reply, but you must be talking about a different battery. There's no way it could be that light.

 _Blade 43 points

Ooops... Sorry for the mistype. It's 371 g.

 fb39ca4 19 points

We should let hobbyking know. How does one go about pointing out errors in the product listings to them?

 Tim.Lynx 1 points

Just under the Stock indicator there's an 'Issue' button that I think would be the way to point it out.

 _Blade 43 points

Wire is 10awg. I'm not familiar with bullet measurement, but the hollow side measures 4mm I.D.

 Kinni 1 points

wire is definitely 10 awg. bullet plug is definitely 4 mm HXT. I'm running 6s batteries and they fit my 4mm bullets just fine. zippy seems to run larger plugs than turnigy

 Nickbeamz 24 points

Depends, I have about 12 of these batteries. However the last 6 I just got are a little larger but pretty close to the specs listed on the site. My first 6 are much smaller with a weight of 365grams. The most recent are around 404grams measuring 145x52x26

 Tom G. 2 points

I am almost certain that they will fit in a stock traxxas e-revo without modification. The inside dimensions of a stock e-revo battery compartment is: 160mm Length by 51mm deep by 30mm Height In battery dimensions on hobbyking.com it would be: Length-A(mm) 160 Height-B(mm) 51 Width-C(mm) 30

 the trooper 7 points

of course they will

 Ryanr403 4 points

yes of course they will