So I just killed my lipo pack...what to do now?

[BrianG]

^ +1. Even with the BEC disconnected, the ESC draws power, albeit very little.

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by BrianG

^ +1. Even with the BEC disconnected, the ESC draws power, albeit very little.

Yeah, in my case the Rx was off, so rx/servos weren't powered, just the small current drain over a few days on flat packs drained the minimal amt of pwr left and killed the batts. :( I've prolly done it before, but on charged batts it can prolly go for a very long time before it discharges enough to kill the batts.

Won't do that again

[zeropointbug]

Yeah, just remember that A123's are just as likely to die if drain right to zero volts. I have drained my pack until the vehicle came to a snail crawl, charged them back up and still full power, didn't do anything.

A while back I had a post of my pack with roughly 100 cycles on it, the cell capacity was still over the rated 2300mah, it was IIRC 2375mah @ 2.0 cut-off. This is after a pack that had been used in a 10 minute discharge, as well as being accidentally shorted out, twice. IMO, they were born for R/C.

HERE is the test.