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BEWARE!! Alkaline batteries will kill your wallet. It is pretty easy for the hard core RC basher to go through 12 AA's in a weekend or two of RC fun. Buying alkaline (disposable) AA's is just like tossing money down the toilet! THINK ABOUT IT!!

Racer's Edge offers some 2300mah NiMH AA's that are a big time money saver. We picked 8 of them up (2 packages of 4 batteries) to install in our JR XS3 transmitter. Our JR runs our LST, Savage SS, Mini-T and RC18T. It gets a LOT of use! It is our primary transmitter and we were getting sick of buying stock in Duracell.

Upon ripping open the packages, we were treated to some very cool looking "lightning" laced batteries! They certainly look better than your off the shelf, toss away alkaline's.....but how will they work? Read on my battery baffled friends.

As with all NiMH batteries, it is best to give them a full charge before using. NiMH batteries tend to lose voltage just sitting around. Looking at the loose AA's, you may be asking yourself...how the heck do you charge them? We simply mounted them into the JR transmitter battery holder which so happens to have a 9 volt type battery plug on one end. A quick trip to Radio Shack and two dollars later landed us a pack of plugs that snap right onto the JR battery holder. We soldered on a Tamiya style plug ($1 at our LHS) and were good to go! SWEET! We set our Duratrax ICE charger for 8 cells at 2300mah NiMH, hooked the leads up and let the charger do the work. The batteries took a nice charge without getting too hot (we used the temperature sensor on the ICE to keep everything in check...see picture below).

We have been using the JR pretty hard over the past four weekends and the batteries are still going strong. It has become very apparent that it will take a LONG time to drain them out with the impressive 2300mah of long lasting power. The controller still reads 10.9 volts after many, many hours of bashing. The cells most likely are rated at 1.2 volts per cell (typical rechargable AA cell) however there is no rating on them or on the package. Our transmitter displays 11.3 - 11.4 volts with all of them fully charged. Whether that is accurate or not, we are not here to debate. We're just telling the story like we see it!

While batteries may not be the most exciting "bling" thing on your truck, these particular batteries will save you enough money to allow you to buy more real "bling". Stop flushing your cash down the toilet. Grab a set of these Racer's Edge 2300mah AA's and you are good to go for hundreds of recharges (NiMH batteries, when properly cared for and charged can last hundreds and hundreds of cycles)! At $11.99 for a set of 4 batteries, less than $25 will set up your transmitter for YEARS to come!