How to build a Battery discharger  To make a bulb discharger, you will need the following:  1. 10 #1157 automotive bulbs 2. approx. 2-3 feet of copper wire, not the braided kind 3. Soldering iron 4.connector to fit your  batteries  Making this discharger is very simple. First, cut the wire into 2 equal pieces. Next, take a piece of wire, and solder the bottom  2 "nubs" of a bulb near the end. Do the same with the rest. Look at the above sketch if you need help. When all 10 bulbs are  soldered together on the bottom, then its time to solder the cans together. Take the second piece of wire, and solder it to each  can. Once you've completed that, just cut the ends as long as you want them to be, and solder on your connector. There is no  + and - for this, either way will work. Now you should wrap some electrical tape around the wires, just as a precaution. Thats  it!!! Your discharger should look something like that above. You can arrange the bulbs differently, but this is the simplest way.    Need a third hand really quick just wrap a rubberband around a pair of pliers it holds  the item  place and the item doesn't fall  out.    Put fuel tubing on pliers to protect shockshafts from the teeth of the pliers or other delicate material.  I use Armor All to clean my tires and clean my battery and ESC wires. It makes the tires look new and shiny and keeps the  wires pliable and strong.  Place magnetic strips around your parts tray to catch small parts from rolling off.  To clean your brushes quickly try rubbing an eraser back and forth over the brush.  Fuel tubing can be used for just about everthing try sticking small allen wrenches in the tubing to keep them in one place.  I use zip ties to keep my wires organized in my car it keeps them out of the way from the moving parts within the car.  Remember the shorter the wires the least resistance you have the better your car will work.  This is not a tip but a reminder to keep your car clean even if it means unassembiling the differential in your car and cleaning it  bit by bit.

From - Thu May 06 00:20:45 1999  From: bobad@mindspring.com (Bob Adkins)  Newsgroups: rec.models.rc.air  Subject: Re: Battery Questions  Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 14:17:35 GMT  Organization: MindSpring Enterprises  Lines: 24  Message-ID: <37460c80.87712859@news.mindspring.com>  References: <7gev9u$8b0$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net>  Reply-To: bobad@mindspring.com  NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.8a.a3.ae  Mime-Version: 1.0  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit  X-Server-Date: 1 May 1999 14:17:35 GMT  X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452  X-No-Archive: yes  "On Sat, 1 May 1999 06:23:58 -0700,"Steve McMurry"  <stevemc1@nospam.mindspring.com> wrote:    >How often do my tx and rx batteries need to be cycled? Can I do this with my  >meter\load tester? If so, how?  >I put a full charge on my batteries last weekend, but then I was unable to  >go flying. Do I need to recharge them again this week?  Steve,  If your pack was fully charged last week, you only need to top it off  for an hour or 2.  Twice a year should be fine for recycling. A pack that's used often  doesn't really need recycling.        "From the Heart of Cajun Country"  Bob  ICQ 657746