RE: cheap chinese batteries
I love my Turnigys, but my old lady runs a Blue LiPo that shocks me. She got it free and well used a little over two years ago. At that point, the balance plug had already been against something rotating and pretty much friction melted. It hasn't been balanced in over three years, and yet she still runs the hell out of it at the track and speed runs in the street, using that poor thing for all it's worth. Oh, she runs a Blitz with a MMP ESC, and Velineon motor. The LiPo is a 3300 mAh 2s 30C. She gets about 15-20 minutes of runtime out of it still!