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"Its more common sense, I'd never discharge an unknown pack straight off. Put it straight on the equaliser and wait - nothing can go wrong then."

I didn't consider these to be unknown packs as they were supplied by a very reputable company, Modeltech. This is born out by the fact that it was replaced without question. I certainly wouldn't expect Nimh cells to be supplied completely flat, who discharges these cells to 0v or stores them at 0v?

As stated in my previous post 'I didn't have any trouble with any of them after that'.

You only have to look at this thread to see how many differing views there are on how to maintain cells, which regime is right?

"there lies the problem, one flat cell would have all the power from other cells dragged though it, then it certainly would go bang"
This may have been the case or possibly a blocked vent, whatever it was once this cell was replaced the cells performed faultlessly.

To put this into context I had two faulty cells in 6 years of electric racing, one Team Orion matched GP3700 cell which was completely dead, and this one EP 4200 cell. On both occasions the packs were returned and the indivdual cells replaced and no further problems arose.

With the number of cells manufactured worldwide proportionately there are very few failures.