Turnigy vs. Hyperion Eagle Tree Comparison

[FE Wannabe]

Tony,

Too bad they reduced the gauge of the wire to 10ga from the 8ga they advertised. I hope the RC Car/Truck/Airplane guys aren't influencing Turnigy to use the smaller gauge wires because they are too thick to install in their setups. With a theoretical burst output enough to start your car, I would think the bigger the gauge the better.

By the way, thanks for the empirical info on these batteries, it will definitely help justify the battery purchases I make, whether it will be to go cheap or spend the bucks to go high quality.

[JPriami]

glad i bought hyperion packs. Ex G3's good prices at rclipos.com too. Pat there is excellent to deal with.

[properchopper]

FWIW the G3's also have 10 AWG wires.

[v-spec]

wow you got those nano techs fast! I'm tempted to buy some but I know my thunder powers will come in as soon as I do. Anxious to see how they run. Put my car in the shop today and my boats in the paint shop, as soon as they are done I'd like to drive up to the lake and meet up Tony. That is if you don't mind.

[properchopper]

wow you got those nano techs fast! I'm tempted to buy some but I know my thunder powers will come in as soon as I do. Anxious to see how they run. Put my car in the shop today and my boats in the paint shop, as soon as they are done I'd like to drive up to the lake and meet up Tony. That is if you don't mind.

I'll be glad to have you at the lake. Get your NAMBA card right away to be legal there-[ the office is in San Diego, BTW].

[Flying Scotsman]

Got the nano packs today ; will do an Eagletree comparison in a day or so using the same setup previously used.

Kinda wierd that the HK web specs indicate :

585 g
L : 166 mm
W: 37 mm
H : 50 mm
5.5 bullets
8 AWG pictured

Actual :

571 g
L : 150 mm
W : 33 mm
H : 47 mm
4.5 connector
10 AWG

Same decal, 'tho !

That pisses me off....specs are specs...and you buy a battery that may not fit...how about the other power specs??

Douggie

[dtacmed]

Any info on ProTek 4200 3S 45C I just ordered 2 for a CyberStorm. 13xl, etti 150

[v-spec]

I'll be glad to have you at the lake. Get your NAMBA card right away to be legal there-[ the office is in San Diego, BTW].

Sent it in a couple weeks ago not heard anything back yet. I had one a few years ago.

[cybercrxt]

Tony, Did the Nanos come balanced? Did they charge up in balance? Call me when you put in some tests! Mike

[properchopper]

Tony, Did the Nanos come balanced? Did they charge up in balance? Call me when you put in some tests! Mike

I haven't gotten to work on them yet.- I've been replacing a tail gear in my heli all morning [don't ask!].

More later. Won't get to EagleTree for a day or two & I'll call [ & post graph]

[Alexgar]

my experience was the same as above my 130$ eflite 3s and 75$ dualsky puffed and were trashed way before my tunrigy equivelents and for 2 3s 4000 and 2 3s 2200 were less than 1 eflite 3s 3200. go figure

[detox]

I here that Lipos will perform their best after about 5 cycles. So if the first cycle performs good the next few cycles should get better.


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[sailr]

All the conversation about lipos needing several cycles before realizing their potential has me confused. I'm certainly not saying that is wrong but I have been using lipos since their inception and was one of the early importers of them. In fact, I have always read and been told that it is NOT a good idea to 'cycle' lipos. Nickel Metal Hydride batteries require several cycles to become 'seasoned' but I never heard that about lipos until now. Are you sure the two types of batteries/information isn't getting confused? I have never noticed any increase after several cycles on a lipo. They're usually good to go right out of the gate for me.


Just curious!

[Rumdog]

talk to the guys runnin the big hpr, and mhz cats. Theyll tell ya the cells def perform better after a few cycles. Maybe randy naylor will chime in.

[v-spec]

All the conversation about lipos needing several cycles before realizing their potential has me confused. I'm certainly not saying that is wrong but I have been using lipos since their inception and was one of the early importers of them. In fact, I have always read and been told that it is NOT a good idea to 'cycle' lipos. Nickel Metal Hydride batteries require several cycles to become 'seasoned' but I never heard that about lipos until now. Are you sure the two types of batteries/information isn't getting confused? I have never noticed any increase after several cycles on a lipo. They're usually good to go right out of the gate for me.


Just curious!

Well I'll tell you what, my old carbon micro hydro sure as heck got faster after the 3rd charge on my new Lipo's. It was embarrassingly slow before that and I thought something was wrong! 3rd charge and it was doing much better. That was the only boat I noticed this on though.

The only thing I do now is warm and balance my lipo's before each run and they seem to run cooler as well as have more punch. It's a very noticeable difference too.