Toasted Lipo!?!?!?!?!

[Mallanaga]

yeah... what he said. do you use a balancer when you charge them?

that battery actually has 4 cells in it. 2 in series, and each of those 2 sets in parallel. then... since you're running 2 packs, you have 8 cells in your setup! you need to make sure they're all the same voltage.

how's your charger setup?

[lincpimp]

If you are running 2 of those batts in series, then your external wiring should be ok. I would still check all of you connections for a bad solder joint anyway, but if you had a bad connection on a series setup the truck would just stop moving. Sounds to me like the parallel connections in the pack itself came loose and one pack was left as a 3000 2s not a 6000 2s. You then probably overdischarged the 2 cells that were still connected. That would account for the heat and puffing. Give maxamps a call and ask for Jason, you may get another lipo or at least some sort of reson why it gave out.

[Hickoryhead]

Originally Posted by Mallanaga

yeah... what he said. do you use a balancer when you charge them?

that battery actually has 4 cells in it. 2 in series, and each of those 2 sets in parallel. then... since you're running 2 packs, you have 8 cells in your setup! you need to make sure they're all the same voltage.

how's your charger setup?

I have a Hyperion setup. 1210i charger and LBA10 balancer. This battery didn't have balancer leads. I didn't even think of balancing. There's the problem. The other battery is new and balanced. Like I said "I messed up." My bad. It ran fine by itself.