Racing battery choices

[zeropointbug]

Hey guys, here is a pic of my new G3 EX packs! Each pack cycled the first time at 22mohm, 2nd time was 17, the 3rd was around 14-15, so I expect when I start putting a few good real discharges on them the iR should be down to 12mohm where they should be. I ran a couple should test runs only to ~70% DOD and wow do they already have awesome punch, the truck feels more balanced and I notice the weight difference for sure over my old packs. The Sentry balancer is a really nice gadget to have, especially for doing quick pack SOC checking, without hooking up to charger.

Also, I took the lexan plates i had undernieth the double shrink wrap on the old 4200 G3's and noticed they have puffed a bit and have what looks like dirt under the shrink wrap. That must be why they have lost so much capacity and puffed, and pack iR has gone up 50%. Check it out in the pic.

How would dirt creep it's way up into the shrink like that? Seems very unlikely to me.

[zeropointbug]

yeeaah baby, I got 2nd place in Qualifiers yesterday, that was against 5 truggy guys! I had the 2nd fastest lap of ~42 sec, with my buddy in 1st place being a ~40 sec fast lap with a Serpent truggy.

Several younger guys are at the track this year with electric truggies and buggies, and I bite my lip when I see them buying thunder power 65C packs while running an cheap chinese brand motor/esc combo, or a MMM combo with cheapo packs... not to mention they are running these packs to 95% DOD!! Yikes, I am trying to teach them about lipo care and when a good pack/motor/esc combo will get you.

My little 6s 2200 G3 45c packs are running awesome, although I don't like the runtime (8-10 mins) depending how I drive, they are running wickedly cool, coming off at barely warm to touch (didn't temp them), but I would say ~15F over ambient. These other guys huge packs are coming off at 130F (Zippy flight max packs).

thats great