[glassdoctor]

crazyjr... I for one don't think you are crazy, lol.

I've been down this road here before, so I'm not going to debate the issue. Here's my opinion...

I have a lot of maxamps packs... but all but one of my packs I built myself from bare cells so that is a bit different, and some I got at he 10-20% discount program rate or discounted because they were backed up in production so the sale of bare cells at a discount was a win-win for both of us.

They have gotten expensive. I would like to see the price come back down some, as they did build a business based on low cost packs, but now they are a premium price.

But, the packs themselves I don't have a problem with, and the #'s I have seen are not bad at all, contrary to what many of the haters always say. I have put up eagletree data in the past and the haters don't believe it. Fine, whatever.

I have puffed a couple packs, but one was dead shorted by a smoked esc, and the other was left plugged in for like two weeks and found dead... 0 volts. Both of these packs were used for quite a few cycles after these incidents but eventually swelled as expected.

I have not had any other pack go bad. Maybe I'm too easy on my stuff. Most of my videos and racing has been on maxamps cells. I do have a "high end" kokam pack to compare with, and the #'s I get from it are a little better than my maxamps packs.... but there isn't a huge different in performance as some claim when comparing to a "good" pack.

"but you haven't run a flightpower pack.." and that's fine. I'm not claiming there are not better packs, or packs with more punch, etc. For that matter, I've seen some say the Zippy 30-40c are just as good as their flightpowers. I haven't run a 3000-4000 maxamps in a blistering fast 1/8 buggy so maybe it's true that they can't take it. My packs are all 5000 or more, and the most used pack for my 1/8 racing has been 8000mah, which works great.

I don't know what the deal is with the new 35c pack... I'm hoping they are just having issues with the test equipment. I talked to them recently and they were excited about how good the cells were... but the posted graphs have been funky so far.

Bottom line is maxamps is not perfect, and I think they should drop prices and c rating a bit, for their own good... but they are not "junk" and the packs don't all puff and die. And, whether or not you like the product... Austin has always been a good guy.

FWIW, a friend of mine just bought his first lipo (elite 4800) and it showed up swelled... he didn't know any better and was going to run it, until I told him. He had to argue with them, but they did take it back and refund him, so that's good. So, to him elite packs are "junk", but I doubt everyone has the same experience.

Now, I need to get off here and go run my CRT with the two year old maxamps pack that I built special for that truck. LOL