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Im not trying to be rude in no kind of way but why would you want to do this to your Xmod?
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It's simple really. Because it makes my xmod faster than yours.
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If you think about it its like having a RC car in the 90s when you didnt have no choice but to wait 5 or 6 hours for your battery to charge, at least then you still could change out your battery pack to give you longer run time in your case you cant.
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I'm not sure what you're talking about there. The 90's had li-ions and chargers for them as well. And the decade we fall in doesn't change the fact that charge time depends on the rate of current flow that you induce on the cells for a given period of time. I built my charger myself and the budget is what determined how fast the charger would charge 4 li-ions. For a $7 li-ion charger, I'm not complaining.
My situation is the case of homemade engineering with wire ties, which might look cheesy and is a pain to physically change cells, but it is very light compared to the stock battery holder. I charge the cells inside the car and my intention has never been to play with my xmod for several hours at a time, more than it's been to just have a kick ass faster-than-fast xmod for not that much money. I mean we're talking about buying $1.75 motors and doing everything yourself, including developing a way to bring more than 9V to the motor without frying electronics. To tell you the truth, if I could go faster, I'd wait 3 hours longer each time. Think about what dragster teams go through. They rebuild whole motors and drive-trains for 3 seconds worth of glory. Don't get me wrong, I'm open to suggestions. Show me a faster way and I'll be on it.