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Old 06-24-2009, 06:20 PM
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Thanks for that Hans, sounds lke your Kokams are maintaining ~ 3.7 V/cell, excellent performance. The Hyperion G3's look very good but I will wait until I see some hard data before buying any. I found data on there earlier packs to be very accurate (see attached for a couple of sample discharge curves for two of their packs, data is from www.aircraft-world.com) and matches what I see on an E-Meter or Eagletree. I can't find graphs on the G3's or for other manufacturers but would love to do so.

I have checked the pulse width on my Rx using the Spin Box (it's a very cool function to use). I found the same results whether I fixed the end points or used the automatic settings.

One other thing I intend to try is pre-heating the packs. At our comp last weekend I found that early in the morning (ambient temperature ~5degC/41degF) the packs were sluggish. I'm going to try pre-heating to 30degC/85degF and see if that makes a difference to performance. Have you any thoughts about this?
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