How are Zippy Lipos???

[jhautz]

Originally Posted by JesseV

Did I have bad luck or what? http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00772/3081841.jpg
Happened during driving.

4s 5000mah 20C Zippy-H. I had driven ~30 charges with it before this happened. Temperatures been ok and all. Was on 1/8 buggy conversion with mamba monster and 2800kv xl-motor. (maybe 6 charges with this car, then with old cars, inferno and mt2) Charged with balancer and 1C or less.

A fiend of mine had a similar failure on a Zippy 5s 5000 pack and I had a 5s 4000 pack where one of the main leads was not soldered on properly. I was able to fix it myself on the 4s 5000. This is out of about 8 packs between us. The zippy are for sure great bang for the buck, but with the lower cost comes a lower lever of quality. I expect that they will have a few issues here and there, and in all honesty they haven had any more issues than I have seen with more expensive packs failure wise, but I do think there is room for improvement from an assembly standpoint.

But then again.... Its half the price of the "other" lipos so what do you expect. I'm satisfied with the dollar to performance of them.