Flat A123 Cells- When?

[hyperasus]

Holly crap. I am definitely going to buy some of these for my E-Revo. No cuttoff and no swelled packs sounds awesome to me. Don't get me wrong I will still keep my Lipos, but sometimes it feels like if I even look at my Lipo packs wrong they swell up on me.

[tc3_racer_001]

even still hard cased lipos aint exactly ideal... IMHO. id prefer a soft case over a hard cased any day. why, the same reason i have a lipo sack not being used. id rather see that the pack is swelling when somethings wrong and stop it quickly than have it flame up on me... with a hard case it is the same idea. i have no idea if the cells are puffing or not. i just hope they arent!!!
anyway.... a123 seem more durable thats for sure.

[stum]

Originally Posted by hyperasus

Holly crap. I am definitely going to buy some of these for my E-Revo. No cuttoff and no swelled packs sounds awesome to me. Don't get me wrong I will still keep my Lipos, but sometimes it feels like if I even look at my Lipo packs wrong they swell up on me.

Keep in mind they are 13.2v vs 14.8v so top speed will be a touch lower (no loss in torque though) and you will get less than 12minutes run time on any brushless setup (unless you drive like a grandma of course). 2300mAH doesn't last long... for me I have a Truggy that is pulling near 300mAH per minute racing so those packs would last me 7.6-8 minutes max.. just enough for a qualifier, but I have to loose top speed to run them - not ideal. My erevo pulls a little less mAH per minute so my particular setup would yeild a run time closer to 10minutes.