TRUE RC lipo packs?

[Mike.L]

As i was scrolling though some old threads and i found the true rc website, first thig that i see is lipo packs, lots of different types and for a pritty cheap price, anyone know if these are as good as their price?


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[Sylvester]

I havent heard anything bad about them, but than again, not many people have them!

I think a couple forum members have them, they should be able to help.

[Mike.L]

i herd squee has some but hasent tryed em yet,

[MetalMan]

I've got a 2s 6400mah 10C pack (3200mah cells). I got it for testing/reviewing purposes, but True RC hasn't requested any sort of a review. It's possible that they haven't done so since they haven't stocked the cells :(. However, the pack has run great in my Dark Impact and TC4, both using the Mamba Max 5700.

[Mike.L]

soo far it seems its good? ill wait for squee to test his, and get a final verdict.

[crazyjr]

Can't remember the thread but there was a guy that had some but they did not work like he wanted

[Serum]

that 1/6th buggy conversion ran great with them..

As long as they are used in 2P..

[jhautz]

Ive been running 5s 8000mah packs from TrueRC for quite while now. I use them in my Maxx and my Revo. For the money they cant be beat IMO. I run some setups that pull well over 100amp peaks and even though they are only 10C(80amp) constant cells, I have never had any isse with them heating up or dropping voltage enough under load that they cause the LVC to be tripped. I recently got an eagle tree, but I havent gotten a chance to graph their performance yet so I cant tell you real world nuimbers. Just that my experience was good enough with them that I now have 3 sets of the 5s (3s pack + 2s pack wired in series) 8000mah packs.

I also have some 5s lipos built with the Enerland cells that are in the flightpower Evo20 packs and in reality there isnt enough of a performace difference for me to notice. Im sure if I graphed the performance of them (and I intend to once it stops being so cold out that I dont even stay out long enough to finish running a whole pack) in the same setup side by side the better cells would show, but in real world performace, I cant really tell.

The oldest pack I have has easily 100+ cycles on it and many of those cycles were pushing them very hard for their rateing. Still going strong. I think the last time I charged them they still took 7900+ mah charge. So they seem to be holding up well.
The only issue I ever had was actually when Mike put them in his emaxx. One of the packs just quit working. no smoke or puffing or anything.... Just quit working. I cut the shrink off of it that night and found that the littleboard that all of the tabs were soldered to cracked somehow. I had to sloder a small battery barr accross the cracked board to fix it and I re-taped and shrink wrapped it and have not had another issue with it since.

One more think: I dont have any data to back this, just observation. I feel like they tend to go slightly out of balance a little more easily than the higher end packs. I dont know if its cuz Im pushing them closer to their limits or what, but it not really a problem. I just balance them every 2 or three charges and Ive never had an isse.

Anyway: Thats my experience with the TruRC packs. Very good bang for the buck!

I am running the enerland 5000mah 5s1p cells. So far so good, 150a for 30 sec, and 300 amp burst.