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Originally Posted by Freezebyte
So...... what the conclusion you can come to in this situation with SMC's and their claims in regarding how to properly care for their Lipo's vs other manufacturers?
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Most lipos will fail first from over rated specs, not being built correctly, using them in really cold weather and people just pushing them to their limits. Storing care should be mainly what works for you. Some people will store their lipos in a cool place and it seems to work for them. I just store them in my basement inside a few ceramic pots. I charge them and store over the winter. I charge them before I use them and I've been doing it like that for a while. The only lipos I had that actually scared the crap out of me was my 2 3S Max Amps packs. The problem that we see now is that people will always look at the higher number before questioning where the cells came from and if they're really capable of delivering 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 or 60C. I would like to see them get some sort of data from their sponsored racers to get a base level of an avg. AMP usage at race pace and take that data and cycle their cells/packs at that level and above to see how well it will do. Afterwards rate the pack properly. An example would be: Our pack will deliver 300 cycles at 50A avg. with X amount of % (capacity) left after 300 cycles or our pack will deliver 500 cycles at 35A avg. with X amount of % (capacity) left after 500 cycle and they can even try out X amount of burst amps from data recorded through out a race and give an X amount of time a pack would provide the bursts. Anything above what ever they claim would be up to the user. Yes, it takes time to get a number system going, but a better one would come out of it.
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