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I used the silver paste from MEC and it was tested at various loads on a 10 cell packs and it sounded like a kettle boiling at 45A from memory.

Ive never had this issue with the AS5, and I know its fairly good up to at least 90c, because Ive used the stuff on overclocked graphics cards which easily hit 80-90c when torture testing .

Also, someone said in a previous post that the A123s are hard to solder. I originally made up a 4 cell test pack that I soldered. Since I dismantled my cells from Dewalt packs, I just trimmed the tabs back to the cell. This left a good 10mm x 10mm to solder onto. Even though this is just spot welded on, you can flow solder over the edges of the tab (and the centre) onto the cell face and it seems to flow quickly and makes soldering easier.