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Originally Posted by Cody.McP
Ask, and you shall receive.
COMPLETE SUPER IN DEPTH LIPO COMPARISON!
Turnigy-
Pros-
Sweet graphics on the numbers
"High Discharge Lipo Battery"
Large Label with lots of numbers and words!
Cons-
Boring Blue
Probably one of the better batteries out there, this pack has a label that covers almost all of the front face of the pack. The label has detailed graphics and lots of stuff going on. More stuff going on = more power in the pack.
Hyperion-
Pros-
It's neat and organized... I guess... 
Cons-
Boring
Boring Blue color
Label does not take up the whole pack
Probably the worst battery you can buy. It's shrunk in boring blue heatshrink and has a tiny little label on it, and it doesn't even say anything about "super high discharge" so it obviously sucks.
Thunder Power-
Pros-
LIGHTNING ON THE PACK OMG OMG
45 C in BIG letters
Lots of colors
Cons-
Clear on the sides, who wants to see a battery?
IT HAS LIGHTNING ON THE PACK! Nothing beats this pack, nothing. Lightning can produce 300000 amps! Thats like a true 27000c rating! Put this in your car and your motor will probably explode!
Maxamps-
Pros-
"Race Edition"
True 150c is the biggest number ever printed on a pack!
Sweet graphics on a big label
Cons-
Fire on the pack, lipos don't mix well with fire
The second best battery, right after the thunder power. It has the biggest C rating ever posted on a battery, and it has true on it too so you know they aren't lying! Plus it's a race edition so it's better for racing than the other, non race edition batteries.
This ends my completely unbiased, well documented, and very in depth analysis and comparison of 4 major Lipo packs used in the hobby to this day. I hope I shed some light on any confusion you had on your future battery purchases. |
Exactly what I was thinking, good job! This should be stickied, and maybe mailed out as a brochure, or at the very least, included with all traxxas vxl vehicles.
I wonder how TP get the lightning power in the pack? Do you think they use a large funnel to gather the lightning? With the pack at the bottom of the funnel, of course?! It would have to be a wooden funnel as wood is the only material that could contain that kind of raw energy power (save for shrink wrap).
I will have to call TP and see if they will share their "lightning funnel" secrets with me. Hmm, I could use a funnel like that to harness the power of the sun too. The possibilities are endless. Sun powered blenders, completely wireless, just like my cordless toaster. Make a daquari anywhere. Just take a moment to let that sink in, amazing.............
Do we think Maxamps is actually a german guy who was some sort of physicist during ww2? Maybe he invented litium batteries while he was on an acid binge? Sounds plausible to me, given the large quantity of info that I found on wikipedia concerning acid binges. I have read that the number one user of acid happens to be televangalists. They use it to keep themselves up and creative during those long commercial breaks.
I am glad we figured all of this out. I was having a few sleepless nights, but a fair amount of halloween candy put all of these things in perspective and allowed me to think rationally. That and the marvelous post I quoted above. I can only credit my mother and the fabulous thunderbirds as my inspiration to finally find a use for stale bread.
That brings me back to the cordless toaster, I was having difficulty when using a conventional toaster while in the bath. Not onlt did I have to run an extension cord into the bathroom, but I also had to watch out that the toast or pop tart did not land in the bath after the toaster ejected it (upgraded springs on my model). So I devised a cordless toaster. Just cut the cord off, made it totally portable, you guys should try this, as good or better than when you made the switch from tighty-whities to boxers, its that good.