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Old 04-20-2009, 09:42 PM
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Jeremy Z
 
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Default RE: LIPO

A couple things:

- That battery is a 2350 mAh and rated 25C continuous. Therefore, you'd better know that your motor setup is not going to draw more than 59 A. Do you know what your input current is with a 3S LiPo? If not, ask around.

- That is not a hard case LiPo. If you crash and smoosh one of the cells, you could have world-class fire on your hands. They smoosh easily. The scary thing is that you don't always know it until later. Everything seems fine, you pack it up in your car, head home, and all of a suddenly your car is on fire. Consider a 4000-5000 mAh pack with a hard shell.

- If it has enough ampacity, it would be fast, on account of being so light.

- Maybe I just didn't see it, but you have to know that the balance tap on the pack matches with the jack on the charger. Did it say somewhere that it does? There are lots of different plugs, so you either have to match them, or be willing to buy the right tap and solder it on. (make sure you know what you're doing, or you'll short it out, and you guessed it, fire again)

Lithium fires are no joke either. My dad had a pack go up. The pack had been crashed and dented. We didn't see the damage. he put it to charge, in a glass baking dish on his bench. When he was sanding the leading edge of a wing, it lit off. He said it was a bright green flame about 2 ft. long, and he was damn glad there was nothing in its path. His bench was a hollow core door, so it is good that he had it in the glass dish.