Mamba Max on 5s A123

[snellemin]

HUh, yesterday I ran 6s A123 in my pan car with the Mamba max. Blew a tire like it was nothing. Can't wait for the MMM forever you know.

This is one of them

[Pdelcast]

Originally Posted by snellemin

HUh, yesterday I ran 6s A123 in my pan car with the Mamba max. Blew a tire like it was nothing.

STOP IT!

[Sammus]

Lol... Ok I'll run 4s then, but only so pat doesn't yell at me!

[snellemin]

Would be great if I could flahs the Castle Industrial Link firmware on my 3 old mamba maxes and have total control in my dragracing experiments.

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by Pdelcast

Yeah, all you guys having no issues. The Mamba Max was not designed to run on 5S. I don't care if it works fine, it wasn't designed to run on 5S. Stop it. Don't.

If you are running on 5S, don't tell me. I don't want to know about it.

And our cars weren't designed to run on electricity either.
We have a habit of not doing what we are supposed to.

Now if we just had a CC controller that was designed for 5-6S operation.... :)
Sorry Patrick, we give enough headaches as it is.

Should say that 5s is completely experimental and not supported. You take the risk (whatever that may be) into your own hands. If you frag it don't send it back to PdC saying you were running in your rustler on 2S and you don't know what happened. Pay the generously low $50 repair fee and be honest.

[Sammus]

I was just thinking. The mamba max says you can run 12 cell NiXx. I've had my nickel batteries at 1.5V off the charge before, 12*1.5V = 18V.

A123 is 3.6V at full charge, 5*3.6V = 18V.

So technically, it should work right? It must be within the design spec of the MM, even using the built in BEC...

i cant think of why it wouldnt work for you, on mine (older one) i have to drop the voltage a little when the 5s lipo comes off charger (21v) to about 20.3-20.5 and then its all systems goooooooooooooooo

[RBMike]

I run 5S A123 all the time, works fine.