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Originally Posted by lincpimp
Ok, read the rest of this thread.
I have a unique perspective of the various lipo brands. I have taken apart and rebuilt almost all of the brands that are sold. I can say that the lower priced lipos from HC are not assembled very well, and this causes a fair amount of their issues.
Same thing with maxamps, and most of the losi hardcase lipos. The best that I have seen are the enerland cells that all of the high end packs used to use. The tabs were twice as wide and at least 3 times thicker. Much better made tabs than anything else save for the elite cells from cheapbatterypacks.
Also, did not was to seem down on the traxxas noobs, but alot of them seem to like maxamps marketing so they are not very well versed on the lipo stuff. But everyone has to learn somehow... And experience is the best teacher.
I will not buy turnigy/zippy packs myself. I can usually find lightly used high end packs from the plane guys for similar prices so I go with that. Maybe for a boat or something that could get destroyed?
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As you said experience is the best teacher, maybe you can give yourself a chance to TRY one of the new turnigy packs and let what you find tell you what you are refusing to know for now.
Personally I am very grateful I came to this forum and got to know the zippy/turnigy stuff which saved my HUGE money and get much better result than my 3 enerland based packs. Enerland is known having big problem in cycle life and IR buildup under storage condition. They are great when fresh from factory but dont't survive long even not in use. I am clearly not a lucky man, bought 3 big enerland packs, one 25C 6S 4350mAh and two 6S 35C 4500mAh. They do have excellent build quality and is very pleasant to look but that just can't stop the internal chemistry from going bad. They are still in perfect balance, with 20 miliOhms IR for each cell. Now the only use of those packs is a field charger power supply for my Hyp0720. I returned the 25C to AirCraft Japan for a replacement of a new Hyperion G3 VX6S-4200. and wow, this china made blue block is a power monster! with 1/10 of the IR compared to enerland cells. Doing more dig you can find why all big name lipo vendors leave enerland for Chinese cells.
