Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-29595756-20180423234855/@comment-27306930-20180424063028

You've come to the right place Cerr. The stock RapidStike motors are 6 volt. For toy motors, they have a pretty long life expectancy. Two LiFePO batteries in series is 6.4 volts. That's  just 107% capacity, or as Scotty would say, warp one. Aye. For all intents and purposes, they'll pretty much run forever at ≈6 volts.

Three LiFePO's in series is 9.6 volts, or approx 160% capacity. Running any motor or engine at 1½ times normal speed is going to put some extra wear and tear on it. Kinda like driving around at 100+ miles per hour all the time. You could reasonably expect to burn out your motors in about half the normal time, whatever that is. In any case, you'll start smelling a little ozone right away. Realistically, it's lights-out in a month or two with regular play.

Four LiFePo's in series is 12.8 volts. That's ≈213% normal capacity. For any motor, that's pretty much in the red zone. Yes, your RapidStrike will definitely run. Yes, you will get OUTSTANDING performance. Yes, you will burn out your motors after a few hours. Actually it's probably a few dozen minutes, to be more precise.

So there are two schools of thought regarding the RapidStrike. The 9.6v crowd says overvolt them a little and have some fun for a while. The 12.8v fanatics proclaim overvolt the crap out of it and have a blast while it lasts. "Life is short, like my RapidStrike motors, booyah !"

That's why we have HellCats and Rhinos. Twelve volts is too much for those crappy stock six volt motors. Break it down and swap out those stock motors for something epic.

Plus, we only want to disassemble our RapidStrikes once. Not fifteen times like those idiots that use fours LiFePo's in their stock RapidStrikes 😊