Okay, I have a question for all you battery makers. If someone says they are using a 1700 mah reciever pack, does that mean that each cell in the pack is 1700mah?

Yes, normally all the cells in a pack are the same capacity and add together to give you voltage in 1.2 volt increments.

A 4 cell 1700 mAh pack will give you 4.8 volts - still 1700 mAh.

What comes into play here is the watt hours, the voltage times the mAh. In this case you would have a 8.16 watt hour pack.

Your transmitter pack of 8 cells if they were all 1700 would have twice the watt hours - 16.3.