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Originally Posted by molak
Even if this pack do hold a 150 c discharge...(almost impossible)
WHAT´S THE POINT ??
There´s no motor/ESC that will pull that much Amps on 4s ... Is like killing a cockroach with a V2 missile...
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I disagree. The point of a higher C rated battery is that as your current climbs you put more stress on a battery, diminishing it's life cycle. A battery that can handle a very high discharge will not be stressed nearly as much when pulling 150-200 amp spikes if it can handle 900amp spikes. My RC8T truggy on 5s geared for less than 40 had a peak of 167 Amps. Even with good quality cells that I was using (RC-Monster 25/50C) they did get warmer than I would have liked, even though they held about 3.4V/ cell under that load, the heat that they generated did tell me they where getting stressed. If that battery had been a 50/100C it may have been 10-15 degrees cooler because I wouldn't have been stressing it as much.
I doubt that these lipos from MA are 150C constant, that may be their burst C rating, so maybe they are actually a 40C continuous, which would still be a great battery.
As it's already been stated we really need an industry standard for measuring C ratings. Such as it needs to hold 3.4 volts at load or 3.5 or whatever, as long as it's a standardized value we would really be able to make an accurate assesment on the batteries we purchase