Problems with the lipo factory?

Ooch!!! That is a lot of dosh to have sitting around waiting for something on backorder. They can't have too many excuses for non-supply as they were proudly showing photos 18 months ago of their very own in-house lipo assembly line.

Sokonomi - you have been taking too many "I must take life seriously again" pills. You will get high blood pressure doing that.

That´s not good, i thought the Rhinos could be a good deal.

My oldest 4S 5000 20C pack is 1.5 years old and has around 150 charges on it. It´s just getting a little thicker on one side and delivers 4000 mAh, then the cells begin to drift more than 0.3 volts under 5C load. If i pull 4300 mAh out of the pack with 5C, one cell is close to 3.1 volts and the others around 3.3 - 3.5 volts.

Ok, for this price and 1.5 years of usage with 150 charges it´s not too bad, i think. But a better selection could do a great job on those batteries, giving them a better reliability and less drift.

To be honest, i´m one of the pilots searching for rock-solid lipos, they only need to give me 10C and hold it without getting to warm or going down in voltage too much. Turnigy 20C series is fine for me, as they have around 10C - 15C in real life. But they are heavy beasts like the 4S 5000 mAh packs, a little less weight and a little smaller could be fine. Lighter batterie packs would be fine, but never at the cost of realibility! I want batteries that could handle over 200 flights with only some loss of capacity and not getting thick. I´m willing to pay some more money for them as the Turnigy cost, if they are really good quality.

I´ve heard the Rhinos should be fine, but it´s not easy to get them here in Germany. You know, the "Deutscher Zoll" problem... maybe Hobbyking could bring Rhinos into the german warehouse?

Scalping by resellers ?


Some stuff disappear so fast in 1 day no matter how many they bring in.