New warning insert in MMM box: "DO THE MATH!"

[pasan]

I use the (in)famous blue packs from the far east, and have had no problems so far, they are rated between 20C-30C. However, the talk is that the first few batches came from surplus cells used to make another popular and 3x as expensive brand of LiPo. I'm inclined to believe those claims because two of my packs are slightly puffy as a result of me plugging them in the wrong way (big spark and badly burnt 6.5mm connector), but they're still going strong in my E-Revo. And I do drive like a total tard, I broke my E-Revo the first time 15 minutes after I had unpacked it.

On another note, can anyone make sense of the "new" rating system Maxamps is using and how it translates into real world usage? They're throwing around the term "surge watts" quite casually, and it seems to me like a blatant attempt at misleading people. And the fact that they're refer to the maximum constant output rate of a cell as "arbitrary" only more so, since there's nothing arbitrary, to me at least, when it comes to figuring out the minimum resistance you can put between the terminals before the cell self destructs.