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tino_ale · 04.07.2008, 06:22 PM

Took me several days to read the whole thread you provided, thanks, lots of very informative posts I found!

I'm unsure about how good of a deal the 10S really is when you take into account it's limitations and true power. You can find it good, and you could be right.

However, like you I've read FMA response to the findings on the real power capabilities of the 10S and the least I can say is that I'm not happy with it. This is false advertisement, period. It's not adding the "estimate" mention that changes anything.

According to actual user feedback, 300W input can be reached for a short time if the charger is kept cool by artificial means. At room temperature, 300W of input can't be sustained, not even mentionning the output power. And that's assuming you're using a 14.5-15V PS otherwise you don't get 300W.

At room temperature, you can realistically count on a 240W of input power, 175W of maximum sustained output power.

So as I see it, FMA is making false advertising because :
1. they rate the input power while any normal individual would assume we are talking output power for a battery charger (all the other limitation like voltage or current are given as output numbers) and all the competition does rate the output power
2. the 300W power is not even sustained at room temperature
3. they claim to be leading the industry in power, which is just plain false

No matter how good or bad the product is, IMO FMA has totally screwed up in the way they are handling this. And I don't see where playing on words is goind to lead them...

Is that so hard be publish honest specs like most of the competition do?

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tino_ale RC-Monster Stock Offline Posts: 39 Join Date: May 2007	04.07.2008, 06:22 PM Took me several days to read the whole thread you provided, thanks, lots of very informative posts I found! I'm unsure about how good of a deal the 10S really is when you take into account it's limitations and true power. You can find it good, and you could be right. However, like you I've read FMA response to the findings on the real power capabilities of the 10S and the least I can say is that I'm not happy with it. This is false advertisement, period. It's not adding the "estimate" mention that changes anything. According to actual user feedback, 300W input can be reached for a short time if the charger is kept cool by artificial means. At room temperature, 300W of input can't be sustained, not even mentionning the output power. And that's assuming you're using a 14.5-15V PS otherwise you don't get 300W. At room temperature, you can realistically count on a 240W of input power, 175W of maximum sustained output power. So as I see it, FMA is making false advertising because : 1. they rate the input power while any normal individual would assume we are talking output power for a battery charger (all the other limitation like voltage or current are given as output numbers) and all the competition does rate the output power 2. the 300W power is not even sustained at room temperature 3. they claim to be leading the industry in power, which is just plain false No matter how good or bad the product is, IMO FMA has totally screwed up in the way they are handling this. And I don't see where playing on words is goind to lead them... Is that so hard be publish honest specs like most of the competition do?