Li-Poly Testing and Purchasing

[xmodmaverick]

Well, I have a Gen1 car that's had Li-Poly's on it for a while. I got the 1st set and put them on, the car ran, but only for about 4-7 minutes. I took them off, thinking they were defected, and they would get EXTREMELY hot after just that short time of running. I purchased a new pair, yet never strapped them onto the car.

Then I moved. I packaged everything up and headed to the new house. I get there and forget about exmods for a couple months. Just recently I pulled them out again, finding my Old Gen1 Li-Poly supra. I take the batteries out, and install them, they were pre-soldered so I just had to do the zip-ties.

I put it on the charger tonight, however the charger didn't recognize the batteries. I looked closer, and noticed that the red-wire on the battery was opposite the black wire on the charger, and same thing for the red wire, it's something like this:

Quick question, do you know anything about those deans micro plugs?

If so, I have a set of Li-Polies, and a smart charger that charges them. However I think that the batteries have the wires on the dean plug backwards causing them to not charge or run the car.
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Battery side . . . . . . . . . . . Charger side.
--RED--WIRE--l Dean Plug ll Dean Plug l--BLK--WIRE
--BLK--WIRE--l Dean Plug ll Dean Plug l--RED--WIRE

Not the way it should be, unless of course the person who did the wiring got them backwards or something. Either way, I can't run themon the car because they're either dead or mis-soldered. and if they have been not-charged for that long, they're probably dead anyways.

If anyone has any advice, whether I should see if they work, by switching around the wires, or just buying a new set. I lost my soldering iron in the move, so i'd have to buy a new one o fthose aswell.

Thanks for at least reading the big big post