3.6 V Lightest bat!! Battery fits in original bay as well!
 

Maplins UK sell a 3.6V ni-mh PCB Mounting cell and it is 3 pounds!!!! This would fin in the original battery slot also.
It is as light as the original tomy cell!!!!

80 mah So u can go quick, the battery will go flat, go quick!!!!! So u'r not driving about at half power for 10 mins!

Sum1 gonna try it?

They also do a 2.4V 150mAh, its a more rectangualar round shape, but much much lighter than the 2 cell mod!!!!!!!!

Are these cells only available in the UK? Anyone in the US seen them?

i dont know about in US, its meant 2 be for backup systems,ie the cmos settings on a pc motherboard,but we could use it.

Its a PCB mounting ni-mh ,do a search for that.

man im chuffed! im going maplins on friday to buy some stuff and im deffinetly buyin some of those!!! ill buy 2 of each ( so if they last a few mins i can hook 2 up parralel for better time ) ill put on some feedback :)

i am definitely interested in this - keep us posted!

Do you have a link to this place, or pics of the batteries you are referring to? That would be great

yo i just did a bit of reaserach and found out u can order from the site..... i aint sure if u can internationaly but try

goto www.maplin.co.uk or .com then search for batteries nimh then scroll down till u get to PCB mount nimh cells or sumthing like that they also have 3v 150mah!

Judging by the picture only one type of battery in that category will fit in the chassis of a bit, and it also says they become fully charged in approximately 14 hours. That sounds a little shifty to me. If anyone finds a battery that they have installed and driven around and works, please post up your findings.

which battery is it? i cant figureout the size - 1/3 AA? 1/2 AA? 2/3 AA?

Bit batt size is 1/3AAA

http://www.maplin.co.uk/products/mod...58&modulecode=

The 14hrs is a trickle charge from a computer mother board...

I hope u all havent bought the cell yet!!!
I went 2 maplins and found that it was a little larger than which they said it was!!!! It will not fit in the existing battery holder w/o cutting it about!!

But it may fit in the bit under the pcb,but ud have 2 move the capacitor, Im gonna buy 1 and c how it fits my clone!!!!

Yhey also do a 2.4 v ni-mh like this,but i couldn't c it because they didn't have it in stock. I'll keep u posted.

its 3 button cells that are packaged 2gether,All w8 b4 u go out n buy this,Im gonna measure it and post the dimensions.