I know that feeling. I just bought my first NIB truck in a couple years this summer, Arrma outcast. I didn't have room for it and had to buy another rack and reorganize my office, which is also my "truck room". The E-Revo Brushless got me started on electric 2 years ago, wife got it for me for Christmas (after I sent a link to her). I had 5 nitro's before that, rarely drove 3 of them. Sold one, converted one and now have 5 electrics and 3 nitros! And I'm chomping at the bit to get a rustler 4x4 brushless that I have no room for.Happy to say I have not spend a dime other than fuel in 2+ years and I run daily. This is an incredibly expensive hobby. I am down to 8 vehicles Forced myself to select my top 8 (as eight is the most I can really keep up with) and have well over 10 gallons on each one. I'm stocked up with parts/engines/pipes/servos etc so have spent the past two years only focused on what I have just mixing and matching. Probably will wait another year or so before looking at anything.
However: This is making my mouth water reading all the stuff you are all getting. Oh my I want to buy so many things. lol
Anyway, did a knee jerk bid on ebay for a Hitec D7 2x200w/2x20A AC/DC charger. I wanted to start running 3S in my two smaller trucks and was considering changing completely over to 3S packs, but can't find any that fit all trucks and have enough power/run time. So, will stick with 2x2S for my big trucks and 3S for my small ones. Anyway, wanted another charger in the house so I could charge 2 3S packs and 4 2S packs at the same time before heading out to bash. Was thinking I'd end up with some sizeable 3S packs for the big trucks, so wanted something that put out more than 10A/100W than my 4x100w charger. I got it for $135 shipped. Thing looked pretty new and seems to do a good job.
Threw together a stand for it and my 4x100 charger, had to get some longer 7S balance leads and make some longer main power leads:
Also got 2 hobbystar 45C 5200mah lipo's to run in my eJato and stampede 4x4. Cooked the traxxas 3500kv in my eJato. Got a castle sct sv3/3800kv to replace it, but only put the motor in, still running the TRX 3S esc. Also ahve the sct sv3/3800kv system in my stampede. So far, they seem to do fine on 3S. However, one of the HS packs is kind of a dud. Not much punch right off the charger and doesn't last nearly as long as the other.
So, me being me, I took 3 of my old SMC 2S 7200mah 2S2P packs apart to make 2 7200 3S2P packs. Had to refigure my battery hold down in the stampede and adjust some stuff in the eJato to shoehorn the thing in there. May actually take them out and run them this weekend... or work on my car. Pretty sure I know which will be more fun.
The cobbled pack next to my 7400mah 2S SMC and 5200mah 3S HS packs:
Had to get a 100W soldering iron to take them apart... that was not a fun process:
Had to raise my center support bar in the ejato to fit the thing in there:
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