[lincpimp]

Ok, this thread has had 39,500 views. And there are around 19,000 members of this forum. So it can be infered that just about everyone on this forum has seem this thread.

And how many people have thrown up some positive experiences about maxamps? 2 or 3? I do not feel like reading all 49 pages, but it is mainly negative. So out of that many people we have all had issues with MA? Or decided that MA did not deserve out money cause of what we have read and heard from our friends? That is alot of people, I wonder how MA sales look these days?

So lets go back to the beginning of Maxamps. I was deep into 10th scale brushless with my then brand new mamba max esc and feigao s can motor. I was using tenergy nimhs, and getting them to work ok. But then I got a 4000mah 2s ?c lipo from Maxamps (I helped put together the inital order for the lhs so they could be a dealer, we had to buy 1500 bucks worth of product, and about 4 of us did just that) and that lipo really woke up that feiga/MM setup.

I was hooked, lipo was the way to go. I bought an ICE and a hyperion external charge thru balancer. I bet I bought 12-20 maxamps packs, pretty much every mah option they had. Even the 10000mah packs. All of them save for the 2100 cells puffed with less than 20 cycles and at way less load than any of the comparable spec hyperion,elite, flightpower, thunderpower, neupower, polyrc, and polyquest packs I have owned. The 3000 packs were barely useable with a roto start.

I have owned and operated more than 200 packs, and have worked on at least 200 more. I have had anywhere from 6 to 10 chargers and had then cycling, and balancing packs 24/7 for at least 2 yrs. I was around for the turnigy/zippy revolution too. I have bought the best escs and motors, and loaded them up with big heavy vehicles geared for stupid speeds. I once had 10rc cars in my hobby room, and have spent 10s of thousands on this hobby.

And the whole time, maxamps have charged more for lipos that performed worse than anything else out there. Nothing I could find had a worse power to price ratio. I looked. I have read reviews, talked to industry leaders, and even cornered lipo mfg reps to get info.

Another thing I noticed, take the hobby city lipos. They were a bit questionable at the beginning, but they got their act together and uped the qc while pumping out better, lighter, higher spec cells that actually did what the labels said. And they did it cheap. And they cornered the market in that price range. Near the end of my lipo repair days i saw alot less zippies that had failed, and mainly saw physically damaged packs to reconfigure. MAS nver moved with the times, they continued to hock their outdated packs with new stickers and big shiny ads in the rc rags. They got into crawling big (figured their packs might survive in the lower draw crawling enviorment?) but the zippies outdid them handily. Then they jumped on the vxl bandwagon, and sould 8000mah packs that could get a rustler past 70, for 300 bucks or something crazy like that. The whole truck cost 400 with a radio... And people bought the packs... Shiny mag ads apparently work on some of us.

I took maxmaps lipos apart(more than 100 of them). Their copper tabs were just crimped to the stock al tabs on the cell. Their soldering was no better than the chinese stuff. Nothing there to indicate those packs were matched (and seeing how bad they went out of balance I know they were not).

Maxamps got in when any lipo could make a setup 10 times better, but they did not keep up with the power demands of the brushless market. And they have continually lied and pushed out BS about their products.

This my personal opinion, and I would consider that I know what I am talking about.

Anyone want to guess what I run in my rcs? The sky lipos from hobbyparts. They work great, and the prices cannot be beat.

I can see that MA have pushed alot of marketing money into the rc business. But they got it in a dishonest way, even from me. A flashy sticker and promise of the best wil only last so long, ask the current pres how that is working out for him...