Lithium ion battery for the Hellcat

[vortecd]

Food?

Food and drinks

 

[jonx96]

Food and drinks

Think I could pass as you at the next amber review? Would hate for your vendors to get off with a cheap bill 🤣

 

[vortecd]

I dont think we have one scheduled yet for the month. We are suppose to go to the cheesecake factory but may be lunch

 

[Speedy!]

Well crap. Weather's been crap and I've not driven GoManGo in about 6 weeks. Went out to the garage to check it and the Arc Angel battery seems to have lost enough charge that it won't power the car. DMM says 11.38V. I don't think you can jump a L-ION battery.

What do I need, a trickle charger for L-ION to get it back up to snuff?

Something like this?? https://amzn.to/3JlRXL5

 

[jgilj]

This is the one I have! Does them all. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09ZLD6RJ5?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

 

[Marc W]

Well crap. Weather's been crap and I've not driven GoManGo in about 6 weeks. Went out to the garage to check it and the Arc Angel battery seems to have lost enough charge that it won't power the car. DMM says 11.38V. I don't think you can jump a L-ION battery.

What do I need, a trickle charger for L-ION to get it back up to snuff?

Something like this?? https://amzn.to/3JlRXL5

 

[Speedy!]

Fooling with the RC cars I learned you have to be careful with the LiON stuff. If they catch fire things get interesting real quick. I was spooked to try to jump start as I'd read reports of that frying the LiON batts.

I ended up getting the NOCO 5 charger. Amazingly it said if I ordered today I'd get it today and sure enough I did. It's charging the battery now although I think it's gonna take about 5 hours to get it full. Pretty happy with the little unit. Super compact and nice connectors, but I do wish it had the readout on it for voltage, temp, etc. 13,000 amazon reviews said it was great though.

Got this one: https://amzn.to/3WFIuBu

 

[Paladin06]

Well crap. Weather's been crap and I've not driven GoManGo in about 6 weeks. Went out to the garage to check it and the Arc Angel battery seems to have lost enough charge that it won't power the car. DMM says 11.38V. I don't think you can jump a L-ION battery.

What do I need, a trickle charger for L-ION to get it back up to snuff?

Something like this?? https://amzn.to/3JlRXL5

Yes you do. This is the one I’ve had for years and it works great.

 

[Marc W]

I have the old (going on 4years) Arc Angel. I found that while it was spinning the motor on startup, it wouldn’t fire. That turned out to be the EFI coil packs. They require a minimum of 11 volts or they won’t fire. If the battery didn’t have a full fresh charge, then turning it over was dragging the battery down below that threshold. Those coils are outta here so that issue won’t be a problem any longer. I have a self contained jump starter that is for use at the track. Hooked that up and it fired immediately. So no issues with jumping (so far 🫣). I also have one of the NHRA battery disconnects that help when the car sits.

 

[vortecd]

Fooling with the RC cars I learned you have to be careful with the LiON stuff. If they catch fire things get interesting real quick. I was spooked to try to jump start as I'd read reports of that frying the LiON batts.

I ended up getting the NOCO 5 charger. Amazingly it said if I ordered today I'd get it today and sure enough I did. It's charging the battery now although I think it's gonna take about 5 hours to get it full. Pretty happy with the little unit. Super compact and nice connectors, but I do wish it had the readout on it for voltage, temp, etc. 13,000 amazon reviews said it was great though.

Got this one: https://amzn.to/3WFIuBu

I looked it up and it also says I would get it today. There is a warehouse just down the street from where I work

 

[hellman]

You can jump a lithium battery with a jump box or cables via another car no problem. Have done that several times at the track without issue.

 

[Speedy!]

Guy on the RC forum nearly burned his house down from a lithium battery fire. As a result I store my RC batteries in a special burn proof box now.

I'm not sure I'd wanna jump start one.

 

[jonx96]

Guy on the RC forum nearly burned his house down from a lithium battery fire. As a result I store my RC batteries in a special burn proof box now.

I'm not sure I'd wanna jump start one.

Daryell from DCR was talking to me about fire and lithium batteries. I dont remember what he said he does different but he put things in place that are supposed to help. He said my anti gravity battery was more prone to fire then his batteries were.

 

[ACMAVRO]

I've had the one mentioned on here from amazon for a little over a year. Always gave really strong cranks up until last week and now I'm getting a lazy/slow to crank. I'm do some testing on it tonight. Just glancing at it, it's still showing 13.3 - 13.6v at rest

 

[The Englishman]

I overwinter my car with the oem battery refitted and on a tender to keep everything up together, last year my lithium battery cranked right up when replaced into the car and was good to go after being left alone.Don’t want to burn my garage down.

 

[MJS73]

Fooling with the RC cars I learned you have to be careful with the LiON stuff. If they catch fire things get interesting real quick. I was spooked to try to jump start as I'd read reports of that frying the LiON batts.

I ended up getting the NOCO 5 charger. Amazingly it said if I ordered today I'd get it today and sure enough I did. It's charging the battery now although I think it's gonna take about 5 hours to get it full. Pretty happy with the little unit. Super compact and nice connectors, but I do wish it had the readout on it for voltage, temp, etc. 13,000 amazon reviews said it was great though.

Got this one: https://amzn.to/3WFIuBu

Lithium + Oxygen = Fire

 

[ACMAVRO]

I've had the one mentioned on here from amazon for a little over a year. Always gave really strong cranks up until last week and now I'm getting a lazy/slow to crank. I'm do some testing on it tonight. Just glancing at it, it's still showing 13.3 - 13.6v at rest

Took it to o’reillys hooked it up to their battery tester and everything good so not the battery. Tonight cranking strong again so idk

y’all do have me noid about that fucker catchin fire now tho😅

 

[ACMAVRO]

Took it to o’reillys hooked it up to their battery tester and everything good so not the battery. Tonight cranking strong again so idk

y’all do have me noid about that fucker catchin fire now tho😅

Went to start it tonight and nothing. Display on the battery was flickering. I’ve gone back to agm for now.

 

[vortecd]

Went to start it tonight and nothing. Display on the battery was flickering. I’ve gone back to agm for now.

Has it been cold there? I know mine didn't like the cold

 

[ACMAVRO]

Has it been cold there? I know mine didn't like the cold

Not really, low around 50's and high around 70s. I've also been driving more than usual. Unless there's a drain somewhere I'm not aware of.