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Originally Posted by neallewis
Your core rc charger will also charge lead acid batteries, but probably safer (for your lipos) to get a plug in trickle charger, as forgetting to change the mode back to "lipo" will result in a fire.
Leisure batteries are fine and great, but nothing wrong with using a car battery if that's what you have. I replaced my BMW 110Ah battery with a new Bosch, and have used the old BMW one for the last three summers outdoor racing. I normally have two chargers running and sometimes a third, all day/weekend at meetings. Never failed me (apart from one time I forgot to charge it the night before). Sure small cheap car batteries might not last too long though, but you'll certainly get a meeting worth (5/6 packs) of charging out of one for a season.
When this packs in i'll probably replace my boat leisure battery and run the old one.
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cheers neal - I don't have a battery at all just my mains charger, so when I goto places like A1 Racing for the Iceman series with my SCT I will need something to power my core mains charger from. Originally I was going to get a can inverter like they have in argos that plugs into the cigarette lighter and run from my own car with it running to top up my lipos, but it seems the better way to go is the car battery or leisure battery route - just want to get something sorted before the 23rd so I have something at A1 to charge with
