Hey folks.

I just wanted to share some info I've been collecting.
Though playing with my RC trucks is fun battery life is always an issue.
I think that the batteries are OK but the charge times are just horrible.

What I found was that copmanies are cheap on the chargers to keep their margins low.
Consiquently, my Nylint Crawler says the 12V battery charges in 8 hours.
Oddly, the spare battery and charger (with duplicate specs) has an instruciton manual that says 12 hrs.

I did some digging and finally found a website that was tailored for Quick charging of (SLA) Sealed Lead Acid batteries. It looks like the type of battery used by the nylint is more like a scooter or power wheels device than your standard RC cars that run on NiCADs.

Here's the info:

>http://www.powerstream.com/Scooter.htm has the EA1046(51) which will charge that battery in
>about an hour and a half. You would have to figure out how to connect this to the battery, it has
>a barrel connector as it is shipped.

A pro grade charger with a charge time of 1-1/2 hrs copared to 8-12hrs sound real nice. Now I need to figure out if its worth $69 + shipping to me.

Here's the tehcincal details that gave me confidence in their site:
How to Charge Sealed Lead Acid Batteries ... http://www.powerstream.com/SLA.htm

I suppose that having 8 batteries and 8 chargers is one solution, but not really what I had in mind. By the way, the Tricked Hummer (and the New Bright CXT 1:6 Truck use 19.2V batteries and not the 9.6V ones. So from my end, the batteries themselves would likely cost more, and the charge time would be slower than what you have too.

On the positive side, these NiCAD batteries are easier to build quick chargers for than he Sealed Lead Acid ones that the Nylints use.

Apparently, SLA batteries do not fast charge very well. Here's a link with some info on charging SLA batteries.

Another option might be to buy a few extra batteries. Wal-Mart has them marked down to $5 complete with a charger.