Zippy vs Enerland - performance > price

[jnev]

I appreciate the replies guys. I think I will go with the Zippy-R 4800 6s pack. It is supposed to be better than the 5000 pack, but not as good as the 4000 pack, but I need the extra run time. I can also get two of these the price of one Enerland cell pack.

Does anyone know where I can get an adapter from the JST-XH balancer tap to a Hyperion or Flightpower tap?

Thanks again guys!

Edit: Two more replies... thats great to hear jhautz that the temps of them are so low. Sammus, you have heard of problem with the Zippy-R packs? What kind of problems exactly? You think it would be better to go with the 5000 or 4000 packs instead? I also have two perfectly working MMM ESC's.

[MTBikerTim]

Originally Posted by Sammus

I've also read about plenty of problems with the mamba monster but am yet to experience any :D

Originally Posted by jnev

I also have two perfectly working MMM ESC's.

I hope these aren't digs at the people who have killed multiple MMMs. Because if they are SILENCE!!! I Kill you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go

+1 on the zippys. They perform great for the money. Like JHautz said, I am going to have a hard time buying another one of the name brand packs. I race my buggy with the Zippy 5s 4000 & 5000 packs and have a couple of 4s 5000 packs. Plenty of power and I can't really tell the difference between the zippys and the enerland based packs I have.

The zippy's aren't built as well as I had a couple of bad solder joints that could be easily fixed and also had one pack die on me randomly but given that they are less than half the cost of an enerland pack, I will take that risk. With that said, Hobbycity does sell the polyquest packs pretty cheap too. However, the value of the zippy relative to the performance can't be beat.

By the way, the Zippy-H 5s 4000 pack is really a 4350 pack. i have noticed some of their < than 5000 mah packs charge up a lot higher than their rated spec.

[tc3_racer_001]

i have my cutoff set to 3.4v/ cell and when i recharged the 4800 i put 4820 (ish) into it.. so i wonder how much these could take if i had my cutoff set at 3.0? id say 5000 would be close.

[jayjay283]

Im all for the zippys, great price and if you can fit their odd shape of the higher C ones into your app, sweet. But I dont know anyone whose had them longer than 8 months. The long term value may not be there if you pay 1/2 an enerland but get 150 cycles