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Originally Posted by matdodd
How many years has there been a EB lipo list now?
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I fully understand the original requirement for a battery list in the days of 1200's, 1400's, 1700's, SC, SCE, SCR, SCR SP, then Panasonic, where you had to have 6 packs of cells to be competitive, but as time has gone on, and, as we are in an Off Road forum, where we have gone from having the power and not the duration to, now having more power and duration than we can shake a stick at, I see no advantage of the list apart from stopping stupid people jumping on a bandwagon of a cell cause it apparently has 120C discharge rate etc..... when they can't use the power of their 90C cells now.
I am sure there are sections that need it (stock class racing for instance), or stating that new technology (something different to LiPO) can't be used at a BRCA sanctioned event would suffice. I could even understand if the use of a list could be quantified as making things safer, but, whilst there are people who insist on charging over 1C, chargers being able to charge all sorts of cells, not auto-detecting etc..... sigh....
And to think, we used to charge using a 30 minute timer and resister.....