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03.15.2008, 08:22 PM

Well, gave it a try today. Used it in my tekno revo, with a quark 80 airmaster and an aveox 2000kv motor (l length can). Revo has 15/40 primary gearing and the wide ratio 2 speed tranny.

Good lord it has power! This battery blows away my maxamps 5000 5s pack in full throttle from a standstill. Power output is up, everywhere. This thing will almost back flip as it hits second gear. It will easily wheely at almost any speed.

So lets look at the specs of this battery and compre it to my previous maxamps 5s.

Poly rc - 3700 mah, 25c rating = 92.5amps continuous
Maxamps - 5000mah, 20c rating = 100amps continuous

So the poly rc has less, not by much. It obviously does not drop much voltage under load. Whereas the maxamps lipos do. Plus the maxamps packs were almost new, less than 10 cycles, and the previous owner said that the poly rc battery had "at least" 25 cycles.

I could not be happier with this battery. I would have some runtime numbers, but I broke the al rear skid and one hinge pin fell out. I will charge the battery and see how much goes back in. I ran for about 20min. The esc was ok, motor was a tad hot, but the body does not have any cooling holes in it. I could also do with another clip on heatsink. The battery was warm, probably 110f. I have a feeling that it was close to dumping, but the performance had not declined.

The truck is too fast, I will go down to a 14t clutch bell and see how it does.

I also have another revo with a 15l c50 hacker and a locked in 2nd gear tranny. We will see how it does with this battery. Just need to finish it up and wire the electronics.

Last edited by lincpimp; 03.15.2008 at 08:24 PM.
   
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