corneileous
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Hey guys, I pulled out of storage my little Propel Speedstar rc helicopter that I had bought probably 4 years ago from Radio Shack and of course, I have two new replacement batteries waiting at home for me because the reason it was more/less put into storage and pretty much forgot about was because the last time I flew it, the batteries would no longer hold a charge or even charge up enough to even get any kind of lift out it.
Well, after googling around, I found out that these little batteries are in fact Lipo batteries; didn’t know that before and didn’t even start learning a thing or two about Lipo batteries in general until about last spring or so, so since these batteries are Lipo batteries, if the same still holds for these like their much bigger and more powerful brothers that power most of today’s electric cars, boats and trucks, do I need to store these batteries at half to 60% charge and not at either dead or fully charged?
How would I even know how to charge them that way when the charger that came with the helicopter is about as plain Jane as it gets because all it is, is a little black piece of plastic about the size of a Wheat Thin cracker that has a cord that plugs into any USB port and on the top of the charger, it’s got two little plug-ins so that you can charge two batteries at the same time and all the charger has for an indicator is a little red LED light for each slot that when the batteries are charging, the red light comes on and when the batteries done charging, the little red LED goes out, that’s it.
Is there anybody on here that’s either had, or still has or know of anybody that’s had one of these little propel SpeedStar helicopters that knows the secret on getting the maximum normal life span out of these little batteries? Thanks.
Well, after googling around, I found out that these little batteries are in fact Lipo batteries; didn’t know that before and didn’t even start learning a thing or two about Lipo batteries in general until about last spring or so, so since these batteries are Lipo batteries, if the same still holds for these like their much bigger and more powerful brothers that power most of today’s electric cars, boats and trucks, do I need to store these batteries at half to 60% charge and not at either dead or fully charged?
How would I even know how to charge them that way when the charger that came with the helicopter is about as plain Jane as it gets because all it is, is a little black piece of plastic about the size of a Wheat Thin cracker that has a cord that plugs into any USB port and on the top of the charger, it’s got two little plug-ins so that you can charge two batteries at the same time and all the charger has for an indicator is a little red LED light for each slot that when the batteries are charging, the red light comes on and when the batteries done charging, the little red LED goes out, that’s it.
Is there anybody on here that’s either had, or still has or know of anybody that’s had one of these little propel SpeedStar helicopters that knows the secret on getting the maximum normal life span out of these little batteries? Thanks.