{"id":1986,"date":"2003-07-23T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2003-07-23T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2008-05-08T09:44:39","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T17:44:39","slug":"building-my-own-battery-packs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/23\/building-my-own-battery-packs\/","title":{"rendered":"Building My Own Battery Packs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wussed out and bought another battery pack from Kenvil Hobbies instead of building my own out of snazzy 1700mah Sanyo HR-4\/5AUP Ni-MH batteries. I just didn&#8217;t feel comfortable spending $80 in batteries ($4.50 apiece + shipping), another $30 for battery bars, shrink wrap, wire, soldering gun, &amp; connectors&#8230; and THEN have to put &#8217;em together in my lair. All that work would get me packs that are only marginally better than what I could get from Kenvil Hobbies for $35 apiece&#8230; for something like $55 apiece.<\/p>\n<p>So I was picking up misc. items at Kenvil Hobbies and I just bought a battery pack. It&#8217;s the same type I got last time. So I&#8217;m going to use the new battery 19 times (occasionally abusing the charging times&#8230; just like I did on the first battery) and then I&#8217;ll start charging them in series together. That&#8217;ll be nice&#8230; more air time, less charging time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wussed out and bought another battery pack from Kenvil Hobbies instead of building my own out of snazzy 1700mah Sanyo HR-4\/5AUP Ni-MH batteries. I just didn&#8217;t feel comfortable spending $80 in batteries ($4.50 apiece + shipping), another $30 for battery bars, shrink wrap, wire, soldering gun, &amp; connectors&#8230; and THEN have to put &#8217;em [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}