Cool little Lipo Volt Monitor

[BrianG]

IMO, the integrated LVC is fine if you balance during each charge. Simple perventative maintenance really. It is unlikely a pack will develop an imbalance all of a sudden unless the cells are old and tired and should be replaced anyway. Also, running at less than the max continuous C rating helps as well.

If you're using the ESC's LVC, you don't have to do anything else.

And by the way, it's not a "Quack" Monster Pro, lol. I know what you meant, it just looked funny. :)

[no mods]

i meant to do that.. haha.. ya.. i think your on to something with the c rating. just got off the phone with a very helpful team member of maxamps. He informed me that i prolly should have gone with a higher mah pack cause most likely running on the ragged edge of my cells "constant" rating, possibly even dabbling in the max load stuff.. anyways.. he also eluded to the potential of having a bad cell to begin with which took a crap under that first serious loads i put on them... not because my lipo cutoff wasn't working.

[BrianG]

Originally Posted by no mods

i meant to do that.. haha.. ya.. i think your on to something with the c rating. just got off the phone with a very helpful team member of maxamps. He informed me that i prolly should have gone with a higher mah pack cause most likely running on the ragged edge of my cells "constant" rating, possibly even dabbling in the max load stuff.. anyways..

Yeah, it's the same with anything; if you run it up to its max potential, you will be running into reliability issues. I usually over-engineer the battery just so that I know I will never push the battery too far. There is nothing wrong with running a higher capacity battery other than the extra weight and physical size, but if you are running a battery only up to half it's rating, it will run cooler and more reliably.