The irony here is we have had an abundance of users here complaining that their LVC is kicking in too soon. ???
Again, we greatly appreciate the time you have taken to help us understand your products better.
If I may take another moment of your time, how is it that your Premium packs are so much lighter than other packs with the same rating?
When it comes to LVC there are a few things that impact the cutoff. One of them is the IR of the cells. Higher IR cells mean the voltage drop will be more so the cutoff will happen earlier. Second the wire length and condition of the connector will impact the overall resistance so once again the voltage drop can be higher or lower due to how well the pack connects to the ESC. The last thing that impacts the cutoff is the ambient and pack temperture. The colder the temp the higher the voltage drop will be as colder cells have an increase in IR. The cool thing about our Precision Lipo Alarm is that you can adjust it to where it needs to be at and since it measures the cell voltages at the balance connector you by pass the resistance of the wires and connectors so you get a precise cutoff.
The 5000 Premium packs are made with thin cells so we can offer a 3S pack in a 2S case. So these use materials that increase mAh and lowers the IR for a specific cell size. We then have a 6200 pack which is more like a true 5800 as the factory wasn't able to achieve the estimated mAh when making these cells as they made them a bit to thin. Once again these use materials to increase the mAh and not the size of the cell. So cells that are thinner will not be as heavy.
I posted the TLDR version of this a page prior.
I still think that issue is more battery related than esc related.
You can have the same brand/model ESC in different vehicles and they can cutoff at different voltages even if they are set at the same voltage. As mentioned in the previous post I just made the wire length and condition of the connector have an impact on the LVC.
I've used the top expensive SMC, but I don't buy them, too expensive. The set I got with an E-Revo puffed and one had a cell failure.
After the SMC I got some cheap ass Floureon and could not tell any difference.
I've used HRB and Power Hobby, Hobbystar, gensacearespammers, now Goldbat. They all perform the same. I just buy whatever is cheapest within specs I need. If they puff or go bad I don't care, just buy another cheap one. Usually the cheapest option costs about 1/3 to 1/2 of what SMC and other "premium" brands want.
Which model of ours did you use in your E-Revo and have issues with ? Did you contact us about the pack with cell failure as if it's within one year of date of purchase this is covered under our warranty ? Are you running the Traxxas ESC ?
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