trains are bad
12-01-2004, 10:48 PM
I have a warp with 12v mod. Those same warp batteries also power my AK hopper through a wire.. I insist on a new set of batteries before every tournament for confidence reasons, and that's eating into my paint funds. Besides polluting the environment and cluttering my room.
I understand normal '9v' rechargeables like the ones you get at radioshack are only 8.4v. However in my warp that's still 16.8v which is regulated down to 12v. I also read that the more excess voltage you have the hotter the voltage regulator will get, and I have mine crammed into the motor cavity of the warp, not properly sunk at all.
So it's almost like a couple 8.4v batteries would be BETTER than 9.6v batteries, yes, no?
And I should look for batteries with the highest mAh rating right?
Are rechargeables any bigger than normal?
How hard would it be to wire up my warp so that I could charge the batteries without removing them?
I understand normal '9v' rechargeables like the ones you get at radioshack are only 8.4v. However in my warp that's still 16.8v which is regulated down to 12v. I also read that the more excess voltage you have the hotter the voltage regulator will get, and I have mine crammed into the motor cavity of the warp, not properly sunk at all.
So it's almost like a couple 8.4v batteries would be BETTER than 9.6v batteries, yes, no?
And I should look for batteries with the highest mAh rating right?
Are rechargeables any bigger than normal?
How hard would it be to wire up my warp so that I could charge the batteries without removing them?