Hobby Batteries

APak Batteries offers a line of Nickel Metal Hydride batteries and chargers specifically made to achieve high performance in remote control. Our hobby batteries are designed and built with the same exacting requirements and materials used in aerospace and other industry applications. Generic 3 pin connectors are used to mate with most common R/C connectors, such as Futaba "J", Airtronics, etc.

The charging of Nickel Metal Hydride batteries is as important as the battery assembly. APak Batteries offers a line of automatic chargers that allow trouble free operation.

Why are our hobby batteries a must-have for high-performance and trouble free operations? Although individual cells can be purchased from hobby shops, the quality of these packs is not guaranteed, nor is the performance. Excessive heating of cells is the number one cause of early cell death. Although cell manufacturers have designed robust cells, these cells are intended to be welded into pack assemblies by a no-heat capacitive discharge method. Equally important is the charging method and charge termination method.

APak Batteries installs a thermally reactive resistor (Thermistor) in each of our batteries which, when charged on an appropriate charger, terminates charge at the optimum time. Our batteries can be charged with the radio's original charger, but will require much more time and, depending on the charger, may not indicate when charging is complete.

APak can provide battery assemblies in 4-cell packs, 5-cell packs, 6-cell packs, 8-cell packs, or built to your specifications. Our NiMH system is listed below, call for current prices.

The NiMH System
4 cell pack, 4.8V, 1600 mAh
5 cell pack, 6.0V, 1600 mAh
6 cell pack, 7.6V, 1600 mAh
8 cell pack, 9.6V, 1600 mAh

Contact us for quotations and details.