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Originally Posted by JCJC
Disadvantages:
Mostly not being "sanctioned" or whatever the word is for 10th off road Nationals and thus Regionals for 2008.
10th off road will need a rule change to use them for 2009, this will have to be proposed and accepted.
I think advice is charge at 5 Amps, not high rates.
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you charge at the 1c rating so for a 4200 lipo you would charge at 4.2 etc.
lipo chargers work differently to nimh and you cannot "run all day on one pack" a good charger will charge the pack in 1 hour irrespective of the amount used so for example your 5000 lipo is used in a race and 2500 is used, you recharge at 5 amps theoretically it will be charged in 30mins, in reality it will take an hour, by the time you have finished marshalling etc there isn't an hour left. as for punch and power, you can discharge the latest lipo cells at 30c, so if your using a 5000mah then you can pull 150 amps, however if you exceed that 30c rate the duration crashes it will supply the extra ampage just not for very long.