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Originally Posted by lucias
I am getting one of the two fluxes I bought today.. Super excited to drive it but I was reading and it says not to use lipos under 25c rating.. I have some Flightmax 5000 20c lipos laying around I wanted to use in them... will they hurt the speed controller by using them?
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SO... you can use 25C rated 1000mah packs then? Thats a BS rating IMO. They need to specify a minimum constant/burst amp capacity. Not a C rating. I could put 25c 1000mah packs in there and it would be way worse for the esc than the 20c 5000mah packs you are talking about.
I remember reading somewhere saying that CC didn't want people to use packs with less than 100 amps constant amp capability or something like that. The issue was ripple current from batteries that didn't have the ability to maintain voltage under load causing the esc to fry. I don't think you have to worry about cooking the lipos as long as you pay a little attention to the battery temps.
Like others have said. Put a little punch control on the esc or gear down and you should be fine with the packs you have for a little while at least.