Lipo info

[IDontKnow]

Hmmm was not a fan of the lipo shutoff as I had read on other newsgroups it does not play friendly with the MFU's own low voltage cut off.
I opted for the plug in LiPo alarm as below:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....=STRK:MEWNX:IT
It has around a 90dB alarm and can be clearly heard across the track we run at and it is inside the cab of my kinghauler!
As to running with lights and sounds on the MFU, I am using the Venom 5400maH LiPo's and recently we did a show at our Truck & Trailer Expo
and I was running all lights except the foglights, had the volume up fairly loud so the spectators could see and hear and I would estimate 3-4 hours running time.
This was not all at once but over the course of the day and in between running around the display area it was parked with all the lights still on.
There is something to be said for buying the higher rated LiPo's.
Below are the ones I have been using:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Hope this helps.

[CustomRCmodels]

Originally Posted by IDontKnow

I opted for the plug in LiPo alarm as below:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....=STRK:MEWNX:IT
It has around a 90dB alarm and can be clearly heard across the track we run at and it is inside the cab of my kinghauler!
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I have a few of them too , since I like the idea to have them plugged in at the balancing plugs of the Lipo’s , but come to find out that several of them started doing weird stuff ,
buzzing even at a fully charged new Lipo …w’ll see , I still have them , and may keep checking them out parallel to my other voltage monitors , but so far I am not impressed of them , even thought a nice little unit and loud , but it should work 100% and not once in a blue moon

[Tamiya Cowboy]

I have 14 of the Novak Lipo cut offs in semis with Mfu's and I have not had one problem with any of them they do not effect the MFU in anyway shape of form every thing runs like it should and when they get low the light blinks and the truck shuts down and it will start back up just like with any other battery so i just change the battery..

[jtroyer06]

ok fellas i know the smart stops work(because of all the good comments on here). So i have connected a smart stop to my traxxas emaxx, I'm using a evx-2 which i have confirmed are compatible with the novak smart stop. i have the esc programmed then plug in the smart stop and program it like the instructions say. In the instructions it says at the end that the red light will come on. But it doesn't say whether it will stay on or will eventually go off, well mine stays on until i turn the system off, and while i have the system on all i can get the model to do is steer, there's no forward/reverse/tranny shifting. So i don't know what I'm doing wrong, i made sure the batteries were fully charged.

P.S. everything works property before i plug in the smart stop.

Jordan