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This is exactly my experience with my set of Hoovo's. I run hard on my two 3s packs in my 6s KEXB, and the big majority of the mah's are below 3.9v. Due to your change in style of driving (BMX bashing to higher off-road speed) there is more load on the battery and it's likely causing greater voltage sag which is triggering LVC early. The light duty BMX bashing let you reach lower voltages before LVC. So you may want to experiment with setting your LVC slightly lower on the esc if you can, so the batteries will finish around 3.3 or 3.2v. that should give you more mah's to use.
Something to keep in mind: given the same "C" rating, smaller 5500mah packs would be more affected by voltage sag than larger packs (like the 8500mah one). Not that the 5500's won't perform well, but just by reason of the larger 8000+ packs being easier to give out juice they will less likely to trigger LVC as early. I'd bet if you ran the equivalent 8500 pack to LVC doing the same kind of driving you're doing now the batteries would be lower than the 3.65v you're currently getting. So you'd be getting more mah's in two different ways.
I actually use a small lipo meter/alarm on the body of my Kraton to monitor voltage because hobbywing doesn’t offer any type of telemetry on the MAX 5.
My issue is not necessarily the low-voltage cut off but just that the resting voltage I was stopping at is too high for these batteries and I might be leaving 50% of the charge unused. I did say LVC in my last post but wasn’t referring to anything set in the ESC, just when I decide to stop based on this meter. FYI, they’re 2 for $8 on eBay.
I always thought a Lipo was a Lipo but It sounds like there is some thing different with these Hoovo batteries that changes the discharge curve.