MaxAmps Race Edition Lipos

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This needs to be posted on the website. The website has plenty of 'True 150C' marketing lingo on it, but has nothing that says what it is. Perhaps next to the "Lipo Care Page" there needs to be an "Lipo Explanation Page" that explains what you mean by your various terms, spelled out. Do other battery resellers do it? Maybe not, but here is your chance to set yourself apart in the industry, and perhaps set something positive going forward.

Originally Posted by brandonwilcox

Our 150C Packs
150C - Maximum burst rating without swelling or damaging the cell. This is a 1 second burst.
100C - Maximum sustained burst rating without swelling or damaging the cell. This is a 10 second burst.
75C - This is the continious rating that the cell can handle through the full discharge without swelling or damaging the cell.

That being said. I would highly suggest that you get in touch with ThunderPower, SMC, (and other US or Canadian based battery resellers) etc. and figure out a common set of testing scenarios you can all live with and publish. They all need to play by the same rules, same can't really be said of the HongKong/Chinese/et al. companies.

Also talk to the motor and ESC (CC, Novak, Tekin, etc.) guys and find out their exact needs.

Enough of the "black magic", people want facts and want to know what they are spending their hard earned cash on, especially given the economic times in which we are currently embroiled.

As for the pricing, I'll go dig up and post a pic of it if I can find the mag again. But unfortunately you need to deal with the HongKong, etc. competitors as well as western based competitors. You need to deal in facts, not rants, about why your pricing is high versus theirs. Trashing other companies to defend yourself, well that just makes you look bad (something politicians have yet to learn). And when I say "you" I mean MaxAmps as a company, not any specific person.

Bottom line, people will buy a quality and competively priced product that is backed by good customer service. Look at CC as one example of a smaller player in the industry, compared to say HPI/Traxxas. Excellent product, excellent customer service (really beyond excellent). Yes more expensive than say some of the overseas companies (which is not to say overseas products are bad, etc), but people still buy and use CC products.