Radio Shack xmod batteries?
 

just wondering if there worth the 24.99 for the charger and 8 batts?

Re: Radio Shack xmod batteries?
 

I have 2 sets of them and they seem to work well. However I would recommend Rayovac IC3's instead. I would have them myself but RS wants a fortune for them, and all the Wal-Mart's in my area are sold out.

any idea how much wal-mart sells them for ? thanks

The Charger is listed here
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...402#long_descr

It says it charges 4 batteries simultaneously $27.83

I have only found a 2 Battery Charger in a WM store.

I saw the AAA batteries without a charger at my local WM for $12.74 per 4 pack.

I saw another post not too long ago that said RS was selling IC3 Batteries without a charger for $24.99 per 4 pack. I have not personally verified this.

Four packs of AAA or AA are 12.73. I just bought some more yesterday. IC-3 is the way to go. I put some on a voltmeter and got a reading of 1.47 volts! AAA rechargeables are usually around 1.2.

Where did you buy yours?

WM? RS?

Walmart.

I dont get it why are IC3's so good? They are also rated at 1.2 volts. Plus if you wamt them to charge in 15 minutes you gotta get the charger.

My walmart lied to me... I called up a while back and asked them if they had the I-C3 4-batt charger and she said nope.. just the 2 charger, we've never carried the 4-bat charger
Well.. I went ahead and ordered the charger from circuitcity.com for $40 and some bats for $12 or something... 2 days later when I'm walking through walmart, I saw the 4batt charger for $27... My walmart is ran by retards :\ I could've saved like $20 off of that order. (From the shipping and circuit city's $40 price.)
Oh well... these batts are worth it :)

is it ok to use the ic-3 and some radioshack batts togeather? what about charging the ic-3 w/ the radio shack charger?

IC3 can be charged on a NiCad/NiMH charger it just takes longer to charge. Specs are also listed on the back of the battery package.

actually... the xmod charger is crap! the batteries die fast... and now my charger is broke... and its the second one ive gone through. For a while, I thought it was just me... but come to find out... a good friend of mine is having the same difficulties. so i went an purchased a I-C3 4-batt charger and some batts... and whammo... not a problem since!

Not sure what problem you are having with the XMods charger. I personaly have the charger and the batteries and they work great. No problems from them at all. OTH everything made by man is not going to last forever. There will be defects in products, all products so the proper thing that should have taken place was a return/exchange.

I think the RS X-Mods batt's and charger are "REAL" good for the price that they are. Im getting around 150 ft range and the last time I ran my car it was for an hour and they still had juice in em. I don't really know why people are having some of the problems with there cars and batt's. I haven't had a single problem with mine or my sons. Maybe it's because we only run on very smooth asphalt ? Have fun everybody !!!...KnotHole...:cool:

150ft of range? Are you kidding me? My mini z only gets like 60-100ft and my cousins xmods get like 25... I think you were talking about inches there...

well i finally got mine a few days ago and i must say for the price i cant complain.since then i gave them to my brother and i upgraded to ic-3"s and they are great .we dont run them (the cars) until the batts die, but i can really tell a difference inthe power between the ic-3"s and RS batts. overall if your on a buget and need batts, for 24.99 i would say go for it. :D

KenntD...
 

Hey KennyD,
I'm not talking inches, I'm talking feet. I've never pulled a tape messure out but I will if I need to. The way that I've messured was by taking steps. I'm a 6'2" tall person with a stried of around 3'. When I step it off I count between 25 steps (that would average 75') and sometimes up to 35 steps (that would average 105'). Most of the time the reason that I stop there is because I can't see where the cars are going anymore.
I know this sounds hard to believe because I had a hard time believing it myself until I steped it off again. I wish I could get a video of it to show everyone. My sons car is the same way also. He has a Supra and I have the Skyline. I don't think that makes a bit of differance but it's just the cars that we have.
The only thing that I can think of is that we don't beat-up our cars at all. I think they have only hit each other maybe 2 or 3 times. Other than that, they have never hit anything except the grass or maybe glanced off the wall inside but that was at slow speeds. Anywho, does anybody else out there get very good range?
One more thing. We kinda live out in the country where there is not a bit of interferance with the electronics, we drive on very smooth asphalt were we only maybe hit very-tiny pebbels, and they have never felt water on there electronics at all.
Anyhow bud, I sure do wish that you could see it. It's pretty wild seeing cars turn when they only look like a speck of color.

Take Care,
KnotHole...:cool:

it is possibly to get that kind of range from your XMod but it also depends on clear LOS and nearby interference, but it is possible. The most I got from mine is about a block long and the city I'm in are blocks are about 180' to 250'. BTW I was at a park when I tried mine. :D

Alright, I believe you. I'd say its a combination of a few things... One being out in the country. As far as I know, every electronic device makes some sort of interference. Also because you've obviously taken very good care of them and maybe as another you two got xmods out of an outstanding batch. :) I wish my xmod experience was like yours, I had nothing but hell from mine. Thats the reason I decided to try mini-z racers and have been happy ever since. My cousins xmods aren't half as bad as my 5-6 were.. After I returned my 5th or 6th car, I decided to go ahead and ask for my money back :)
Later man.

I think you just had a bad RS experience. I know some try to resell the broken ones thinking the customer doesn't know what they are talking about. (Take note I did say some, not all. I had to repair a few when I was an employee to make the customers happy.) But the whole idea is that your problem should not of happened. I've been in retail and manufacturing a long time and a new one delivered str8 from the factory should have been shipped to your house. (At lease I whould have done that.) Continuing on, most people have to understand that there are several factors which can alter your product (several mentioned in several threads across all forums. Quality control, distrubution, support, and aftermarket products. It seems like the 1st 3 were neglicted. Which all of us are seem to have felt. Personally I would have checked to 1st compnet the Main PCB and used a thicker clad of copper. But anywho glad you like your mini Z, they are hobby class, not RS class. They didn't call em XMods for nothing. :D

I agree... My RS manager is a total ****. He got really mad whenever I took my Weller Soldering iron in there to see if they would have a replacement tip. He didn't even look at the tips, he just said 'We don't carry Weller, have a nice day'. I understand that they don't carry Weller irons, but maybe just maybe one of RS's tips would fit the Weller soldering iron. I dunno, maybe the only reason RS built a shack in our town was to piss me off. :\

I have a weller soldering gun and some of the RS replacements work. Besides your Manager can get mad at you but he can't tell you you cannot shop in the store (As long as don't work there you are not on the clock. Afterall 60% of revenue comes from the employee purchase. You might wanna make friends with another store manager I did. She is cool, she bends over for me and backwards too. :D

BTW match your wattage of your iron to the RS replacement, it should work fine I use it on other solder irons/guns.

WOW.....She is a cool mananger.

LMAO

I gave up on my old weller soldering iron after I got to looking at it... it was in pretty bad shape. I just went the other radio shack and bought their dual wattage iron. I really like it :)

That's cool. It comes a time in life when you have to just throw it away. :(

is she hot?
oh yeah, i cant find a replacement for my dual watt soldering iron. its the 20/40 watt soldering station. my local rs has none. will any others have them or do i have to get them online/special order?

A million appologies for digging up this old message thread, but I just posted yet another message to another thread (in the ZipZaps subforum) refering to the problems with the XMods battery charger (note that I realize that there prolly won't be any replies within this thread from Codedat as he hasn't been here in quite sometime, I simply was quoting a pertinent post).

Anyhow, thread over in the Zaps section -> http://tinyrc.com/forums/showthread....threadid=21770

RS batteries are crap and way too much $$$ anyways. I got a 15 min charger and some great AAA's I found on ebay that run a long time and charge with the 15 minute charger despite not being IC-3's.... A double charge on the charger makes them last way longer too.... And I get these batteries for a little more thatn $1 each.

Thanks for the info -:)

Actually, I've never had any problems with the RS batteries, only their crap XMods battery chargers <G>.

True though, the RS batteries are usually higher priced compared to other comparable batteries, I've previously purchased Panasonic NimH batteries at a much lower cost than the RS ones... and the Pana. batteries are usually higher capacity as well -:)

Anyhow, my main gripe/complaint is that infernal RS XMods charger... I don't think that I've had more problems with anything else that I've ever bought in my life <BG>!

Most any rechargable batteries will have problems at one time or another. That's just the nature of the beast. I have had several different brands, so far the duracell 900mah rechargables have proven to be the best performers with the least amount of problems. They have an excellent run time along with outstanding power for a nihm cell. The radio shack batts are prone to problems. After about 10 recharging cycles, they tend to start loosing the capacity to hold the charge longer than 10 or 15 minutes. Unless you plan on going with Lithiu-ion I'd say go with durecell. They have proven to be highly dependable.

i dont have an xmod but i do have some AA enegizer 2500mah for my ssmt and AAA enigizer 850mah for my zips controllers(rechargbles nimh) they both have nice long even discharging lives and i do like their preformance. if you have not tryed them out it may be worth tryin, i think u just have to experiment with different ones to find the one to ur liking