Has anyone successfully replaced a bad cell in a pack? Say you had 3 True packs and all had say around 50 flights. Could you sacrifice 1 pack and use the good cells off of it to keep 2 packs healthy for a long time?
I started off the season with 4 brand new packs flying an Integral with an AXI F3A CCHV85 and a APC 20.5x14 prop. Pack # 2 a TP 5000 10s V2 went completly bad on flight 28. Pack #1 another TP V2 went bad on flight 45. Both were sent back. Packs 3# and #4 are both True 5000's but the longer packs that Dan was selling earlier in the year have been going really strong with around 50 flights each. I had Dave Snow run the packs on his Cellpro about 3 weeks ago and he told me the TP pack #1 had a bad #8 cell and sure enough it puked a few flights later. The True packs seemed to be showing relativly healthy IR data in the 5's if I remember right. In the air they feel as strong as when they were new. I tend to fly a wide open style and they were delivering for me all year.
I've learned to be very careful with flight times and like Joe I limit my flights to a masters sequence and land. About 7.5 minutes on average. My average amount on mils put back in all packs this season was 3300 per flight.
From what I've seen I think the True long packs are better than the True short packs that he was selling for a while. I think Dan has gone back to the long packs. I'm refering to the 10C packs only.
I will be buying a Cellpro charger so I can get a better handle on the details. Until then I rely on the info on the net and having a great resource like Dave Snow to fly with. Thanks, Mike Mueller