30C Continuous(ish) Lipo Discharge

[zeropointbug]

Maybe so, but I still think it means nothing when they don't state what brand they are using. I could go get a crap brand LiFePO4 cell and test it to the rated C rating and get much lower volts than the manufacturer would provide, does that mean A123's are crap?

[JThiessen]

So that's exactly the type of thinking that they were trying to avoid. If you put a name with it, people will focus on that, and not on the data.

What I read into it, was that we are being fed a C rating number, and being told its important, kinda like Hp ratings. But this one particular experiment shows that a battery can not in fact handle running at its C rating. Just another feather to put into the "use your C rating with an asterik" hat....

[jhautz]

Even if they don't want to publish the names of the lipo brands it would be interesting to me to see them do this same test on a few more different brands and see what results they got. Just to understand how much difference there is from one brand to the next.