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Originally posted by djranier
The ends were coated with scotchcoat, and they were brand new batteries. But when we got them out of his boat, they were burning hot. They were 4500 mAh 10C subC cells.
Hmmm. Do you happen to know what type of motors he was using? If he was using a couple of 550's, and had a lot of drivetrain drag, he could well have exceeded the discharge capacity of the packs.
By the way, on the subject of battery comparisons, the various types are compared on a pretty much apples to apples basis of weight versus size versus cost for a given (360Wh - pretty substantial)unit of power here:
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