Interesting idea this Graham.
Personally i've tried various cells ranging from £60 a pack to £25 quid, and I can honestly say the cheap ones perform no differently (to me anyway).
I have bought un-matched cells for this seasons outdoor regionals, I ran them at Teesdale in the 2wd, in the mud with TR32's and still had around 1700 left in the cells !
I would be interested to see what the actual tollerences were of a given pack, i.e is an unmatched pack out in terms of matching by 10% across the 6 cells, or is it more like 1 % ?
I've tried running a couple of my un-matched packs until they dump, and I was expecting it to be like the old days of racing, where you do one or 2 laps as the car slows down gradually, but it didn't, they went off just like a matched set does, pretty much all at once.
As for charging, I keep an eye on them and trun them off before they peak on the charger if I think they are getting a bit warm, to stop any potential over-charging.
I'm not buying 'team-matched' packs anymore, as i'm convinced the marketing hype is bigger than the benefits of spending twice as much as you need to !
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