Thanks Gary! I thought it was something like that.
Shame they couldn't have used C for cells rather than S ... wtf ?!?!
Then they could have used D for discharge which would have created plenty of opportunities for innuendo as per ISO standards for all things engineering.
There is a reason for that (I used to work remotely for Hobbyking in my spare time). In the early days of Lipos you would see batteries that had cells in series AND parallel, as the individual cell sizes just weren't available to make high capacity battery packs. Therefore the cell count was "S" to say that the cells were in series. If the pack was doubled up, say, to increase the capacity, then it would also have a 2P rating. As this can still go on (but doesn't) then the naming nomenclature remains.Originally Posted by Dom
Thanks Gary! I thought it was something like that.
Shame they couldn't have used C for cells rather than S ... wtf ?!?!
Then they could have used D for discharge which would have created plenty of opportunities for innuendo as per ISO standards for all things engineering.
By the way, you could count the number of Lipo factories worldwide on one hand, so your expensive Lipos quite probably have the same cells in as your cheap Turnigy batteries from Hobbyking do. This is one of the reasons why Turnigy batteries perform so well for the price- Hobbyking are absolutely massive and sell millions of them, so can afford to keep their profit margins really low.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks