Novak the Chevy 350 of brushless.

[MetalMan]

One problem with the HV that will pretty much always steer me away from it: the BEC operates off of only one of your two battery packs. This means it drains that pack faster, which essentially removes the possiblity of charging both packs together without heavy cell equalizing from the balancer.

I haven't looked into it, but I suppose you could bypass this by plugging both packs (or a single large pack) into the non-BEC side, and powering the ESC with a RX pack or UBEC. But even still, I'd much rather spend my money elsewhere...

[JThiessen]

Originally Posted by MetalMan

One problem with the HV that will pretty much always steer me away from it: the BEC operates off of only one of your two battery packs. This means it drains that pack faster, which essentially removes the possiblity of charging both packs together without heavy cell equalizing from the balancer.

I haven't looked into it, but I suppose you could bypass this by plugging both packs (or a single large pack) into the non-BEC side, and powering the ESC with a RX pack or UBEC. But even still, I'd much rather spend my money elsewhere...

That is probably my only complaint about them. I continually see one of my packs drained dangerously close to failure - but it doesnt appear to be consistent to any one side (but I still need to do more testing to determine this). I really think this is why I killed a couple of my new A123 packs, and a couple of my NiMH packs. I now have to pull my packs the second I notice any drop in performance from 100%. "Charlie" at Novak once told me that the HV system was really hard on NiMH packs, but didnt elaborate on why - I wonder if this was the reason.

[starscream]

Originally Posted by MetalMan

One problem with the HV that will pretty much always steer me away from it: the BEC operates off of only one of your two battery packs. This means it drains that pack faster, which essentially removes the possiblity of charging both packs together without heavy cell equalizing from the balancer.

I haven't looked into it, but I suppose you could bypass this by plugging both packs (or a single large pack) into the non-BEC side, and powering the ESC with a RX pack or UBEC. But even still, I'd much rather spend my money elsewhere...

If thats really your only concern then why not wire both inputs leads in parrallel?

Oh, and if this was the traxxas forum, you'd all be at 100% warning level :)

[MetalMan]

Originally Posted by starscream

If thats really your only concern then why not wire both inputs leads in parrallel?

Oh, and if this was the traxxas forum, you'd all be at 100% warning level :)

Through the circuit board both sets of leads are wired in series. Wiring them in parallel would cause a nice puff of smoke .

[starscream]

Originally Posted by MetalMan

Through the circuit board both sets of leads are wired in series. Wiring them in parallel would cause a nice puff of smoke .

Doh!
I guess reading the instructions always helps