Who has the best Lipo's

[Punisher 67]

Who makes the absolute best and most powerful lipo's right now....who is king of the lipo pile.......................

[driftah]

lol I know that maxamps makes the most overpriced lipo's...as for the best it would be between smc,thunder power and hyperion they all have newer high arse c ratings

[JMSCARD]

Who makes the absolute best and most powerful lipo's right now....who is king of the lipo pile.......................

Peter from what I read the 45c hyperions are the best... I have had the vx 35c's and were quite impressed.... I also have a bunch of 30c and 40-50c turnigy/zippys... good packs for the money as I am sure you know....

The "new" ones out that have gotten rave reviews on other forums are the new "Gens Ace"... a few reviews/tests have been done on other sites and supposidely they have been better ranked then the turnigy/zippys and just under the hyperions.... so I would like to hear and see more about them.... sounds like they may be a decent new lipos to the market.... and of course Polyquest/enerlands are good too... only thing I have noticed with them is if you store them for any length of time it seems they always have the most often problem with lazy or F'd up cells? seems like they like being cycled and not just sitting around... this is just what I have found on lipos..... I sure you peter Z have had a few ideas on what may be the best?

[Jeff Wohlt]

The only problem I see with some of the Gen Ace and Blue packs from Hobby Partz is small wire...not 10 like the HK blues. Sure they may say 5000, 40 C but draw 125 constant amps on 12 wire for a few minutes an they get very warm.

I love the 10 ga wire.

[Chilli]

Thunder Power is making 45c/90c 6500's. Never used them though.

Hyperion 45/90 5000's rock!

[igottalongone]

45C Hyperions are my weapon of choice...
TP is my second choice...
I'd rub salt into my own eyes before I'd buy wongpoo li-po's...

[JMSCARD]

45C Hyperions are my weapon of choice...
TP is my second choice...
I'd rub salt into my own eyes before I'd buy wongpoo li-po's...

I used to like thunder power but...... I always ran them in my planes... Pro Powers..... I ran them Back to Back with 20c Zippys!!! the zippys performed just as well.... so I stopped going crazy over TP's...... I ran (2)2250 propower 3s packs in series in my PA MX 58" plane and then the (2) 2200 20c zippys.... the zippys went STRAIGHT up every last bit as well as the TP's.... when using 30c zippys they perform better then the pro power tp's... I don't have any of the latest 45c tp's though... but I won't either...

and aren't TP's wongpoo lipos anyhow? I run turnigy/zippys in some pretty high end setups...

[bedrock]

Peter

Hyperion 45C lipo's are by far the best batt's - I have 8x 4200's 6S and 8x 5000 5S
these hold the charge far longer than any other batt's on the market!!!

Rember you get what you pay for.......... there is a reason that the other's are cheaper!!!!


Just my 2 cent's worth.........
Happy boating

Dean

[Punisher 67]

Thanks guys for all the input , that really helped.......................

[Diegoboy]

Has anyone tried these?

[calcagno45]

Diego- I know those XPS lipos are going around the car market with good success. But then again, cars don't have the amp draw of boats.


Hyperion 45C packs are truly worth the price! 35C Hyperions kick ass as well!! My packs stayed ICE cold even in the highest amp draw situations I could throw at them.

[Fluid]

I run turnigy/zippys in some pretty high end setups...

Good luck. Here is what happened when a club member ran his first mile race with HK cells. They were in a 10S Hurricane mono with Schulze 40-160 and Lehner 3060. This was a top-end build that had raced for a couple seasons with ThunderPowers. The only change was to the HK packs - 25C rated same as the old TPs. One pack of the four was sorta undamaged....

[JMSCARD]

I hear ya fluid, and I know you are a racer so you have been there done that.... but, I only run the better of the HK cells in my high amp big boats... the newer 40-50c packs.... I've had good luck some have had bad with many different lipos.... I don't race either, maybe if I did I would notice more of a difference... but I still hold my boats to the "pin" the whole time shes on the water so they get run pretty hard.... some have good luck and some have bad luck with all sorts of things... my 40-50c turngys cost around 25% of the comperable Thunder power....

[Punisher 67]

Danny yours have certainly got my attention , very impressed with the price considering there C ratings . I am Starting my second Sniper as soon as the hull gets here with a 3080/7 & Schulze 40/160 combo and am going to be in the market for batteries this year since mine are 4 yrs old .

Thank you Jay for showing us the worst case scenario and that is absolutely what I want to avoid . I wouldn't worry about running HK's bargain packs on my mid to mild setups but don't think I will not chance it on a 2K + Sniper build

Jim the high end HK's kind of got my attention also , my first 4 x 6C5000 packs 4 years ago cost over a $1000.00 clams and I am not looking to spend that again

Once again thank you guys for some awesome input..................

[Jeff Wohlt]

Anybody not checking lipo temps while setting up a boat...just like you would a ESC, should not be running lipos! We all get a bad one...even the big names do.

Sure, if you know you are running peak amps for the ESC and cells you then take the risk of cooking any packs out there....HK or any other. 2p is minimum with hot setups.

Does any one truly belive you can pull 90c from a cell that says that is its peak? Come on. 450 amps....for even a brief moment???

Good set ups should be able to run any decent 40C lipo....or your set up is way overboard or again...you should not be playing with lipos.