Maxamps Thread...

[sikeston34m]

Anyone that's been around RC for any length of time, knows Lipo Packs have special needs.

Someone just getting into the hobby, for example, will ruin a few good packs before they suddenly "discover" they should have used a low voltage cutoff.

After feeling the hit on their wallet, this person decides its time to learn a little more about batteries and why they didn't get their money's worth. Who's fault is this? It's a learning curve.

With this stackable cell configuration, there are just too many things that can go wrong.

With the unknowing new person that is just getting into the hobby, there are too many things that can and will go wrong.

Electricity just fascinates people. Have you ever seen someone that wasn't savvy on electronics try to "fix" something?

They may just decide to wire the thing up an entirely different way to see if it works now. LOL

When something goes wrong with a setup, you can bet, if it can be plugged up the wrong way, they are going to try it. Just to see if that fixes it. Afterall, it should work. They paid ALOT of money for this thing. In their desperation, this WILL happen. Then who's fault is it?

I would NOT want to be facing the blame game over liabilities when the unknowing gets together with poor engineering practices.

Why are most power plugs reverse polarity protected? So the Unknowing, won't plug it up wrong! It doesn't matter what color things are! If it can be plugged up wrong, it will be! LOL

Two cells, connected together wrong, if the plugs actually plug and weld together, will go ballistic before anything can be done about it.

4S configuration, with the last cell backwards, will attempt to reverse charge the backwards cell, using the force of 3 cells to do it, as soon as the ESC is switched on.

These scenarios are NOT pretty.

When bad things happen like this, it isn't going to be a blame game over warranty issues. Or "We won't warranty that, but we will sell you another one".

It's going to be lawsuits over people getting hurt and property losses.

What about the pissed off parent that just bought this "toy" for their child?

Why did the house burn down? Who's fault is this?, says the insurance company.

Before you release these to the public and start selling truckloads to the unsuspecting, and the unknowing, you better rethink this one Maxamps.

Something like this, could lead to your demise as a company.

If any Mod feels like what I have posted is unreasonable, or if you consider this to be "just bashing", please feel free to delete this post. - *** Its fine as I read it , expresses my concerns - Arct1k ***

Thank you.