Raceiver

[Legends16]

Hello guys,

      Last weekend my battery in my raceiver's battery went dead halfway through the race. My fault, I kept a few with me and didnt do a good job keeping track of which was the fresher battery. It flashed all 888's across the display before it reset and then I was listening to channel 000.

      Ive since read a little online on how often people replace the AAA batteries in these. Many guys will replace them after every race, besides taking them out of the unit when they are done for the day which is what I have been doing. Some have said that they perform the best on a fresh quality brand battery.

      This leads me to think, has anyone ever made up a battery pack for one of these. Im pretty handy with a soldering iron. Im thinking of making a battery pack  involving 2 or 3 AAA rechargable batteries (wired in Parallel) and having it connect to the unit. It would involve me soldering a few wires and connectors to the battey tabs and getting a battery holder. This would keep the raceiver at peek voltage longer than a single AAA would.

      I cant be the only guy to ever think this (or overthink  ). Anyone ever do this sort of thing?

    Thanks,

    Eric

[justfreaky]

I use litium batteries for my battery powered stuff. They are a bit more money, but last so much longer.
A rechargeable battery pack sounds like an interesting idea. Maybe Jim or Randy can give you their thoughts on that.

Steve

[VMS Motorsports]

Before my 2nd GoPro died, when the AAA batteries were not strong enough to power it anymorem I put them in my Raceciever. Never took them out when not using them or anything like that, and got 3-4 races on the "dead" battery.
Now I just use Energizer Lithium, have 7 race nights on the one in  it and it's still fine...I never take it out of the Raceciever

[Racinjj]

I buy the cheapest batteries I can find and put a new one in every race day.

[Winterracing]

I just have bad luck with these halfway through every race mine just resets back to 000. Not sure why i replace the battery every race

Dan

[IraceLegends77]

Sounds like the batteries are coming loose (losing contact) and when they make contact again it will reset to 000