Cordless nitro heli starter

In preparation to my future nitro helicopter, I was looking at my old plane starter and I decided to mod it a little to use an old Align 3s 11.1v lipo pack that I don't use anymore on my T-Rex 450, because its a little puffy and it wasn't lasting really long.


After reading several posts on this subject from people saying that a 3S lipo pack had enough power to start a 50 nitro heli engine, I simply cut the wire of my old plane starter and soldered a dean plug to it at about 2 inches and I used my dremel to remove some plastic on the bottom of the starter to make some room for the lipo pack that I strap to the starter using some velro bands. I also soldered the other part of the dean plug to the old starter wire, so I can still plug it to my field 12v battery if needed.

It looks pretty cool in my opinion and I tried it on my old .75 SuperTiger plane engine and it works very good. Since I dont have a nitro heli yet, I can't be absolutly sure it will work ok, but I really dont see why it wouldn't work.

Anyway, it was a really easy mod to do and it didn't cost me anything because I had all the required parts laying around.

Here is what it looks like: