@Daniel: We used Nicks ampmeter at the Marayong Annihilator when we were going put one of NiMH packs in, but he wanted to check if the motors would draw too much from the NiMHs, Andrew just gave it half throttle and then grabbed the wheel and it shot up over the 100amp mark for about 1-2 sec until he couldnt grip the spinning wheel.
On Annihilation we use a 1000amp analog shunt ampmeter, we use to run it on a 300amp scale but on start up it would just go off the scale, so now we use the 1000amp scale.
I think the IBC takes a bit more because we have a fan mounting on ours and tend to give them a break every now and then when driving them. When Brett did the testing on the older version of the IBC with the crap fet insulator washers, it would take 120amps for 5 secs when the insulators melted before blowing the fets. I dont know how much it could take with the new insulator washers installed.
@Paul: Ill be in Melbourne for RoboWars 2 in just over a week, Ill pick a few more DOSS SLAs up. Will grab and extra for you.





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