Awful lot of talk about battery failures. Well I’ve been in the hobby quite some time and watched battery technology move from non chargeable dry cells through NiCad’s to the lithium chemistries. It’s been the same for all this time. Those who invest in top quality batteries, radio equipment, chargers and who do their due diligence monitoring the same seem to have little to no problems.
Those that insist that the cheapest equipment is just as good as the quality brand name seem to suffer an inordinate amount of failures. Those who are caviller about care, maintenance and monitoring their equipment wonder why they have more than they’re fair share of failures.

I can honestly say I have not had one flight pack, receiver pack or transmitter pack fail on me in flight. By careful monitoring I have detected less than optimal battery conditions and swapped out the pack long before it had a chance to fail.

Years ago when we started indoor I decided to go the inexpensive route to have a separate system that I could just pick up and go. I purchased this stuff from the popular discount off shore supplier many here use. Never again, some of it didn’t even work out of the box and some batteries ended up nothing but paperweights after less than a dozen uses.

I would bet dollars to donuts most problems can be directly related to cheap equipment supplemented by lack of good common sense monitoring of the same.

In my opinion there is no substitute for quality equipment, educating yourself on how to get the most out of that equipment then developing a routine for care and maintenance of the same.

Dennis