Hands up who wants to hear something unpleasant about A123s and their life span:

http://www.dansdata.com/gz042.htm


Oh crap...

I dont think that was alarming at all. I'm not sure anyone on here expects their packs to last (in use) more than about a year. I know I sure don't. We (RC'ers) probably use/abuse our packs harder than anyone else does.
But what he said about the 3-4 year expectancy looks to be dead on. These packs I bought are now 3+ years old, and are probably on their last fizzz (thats gotta be an official electrical term, right?)

While I'm a little pissy about the age of the packs I purchased, I did purchase them for basically bottom dollar. Sometimes a good deal is in fact too good to be true.

I've got 400 in Lowes gift cards save up.....waiting for them to start carrying Dewalts 36V line - that is unless the DW finally decides she wants that masterbathroom finshed.....

I checked my packs today and guess what - Feb 06:grrrrrr: Even more money needs to be spent now to get my XB8 running now:slap:

I thought that Dewalt went away from a123 to some other off brand of LiIon cells. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure i read that somewhere. Te Dewaly packs they are making now dont contain real a123 any more.

I think (and this is only based on heresay) that the use of different cells was only a short term solution to the trucking issue in China. But i could be wrong about that.

BTW, there is a guy on RC groups selling two 14 cell packs (he's a flyer) for 250 for both of them (shipped). They are used, but he claims they have only a few runs on them.