micros_rock

Does anyone know of shops that sell the Peak/TO 3300 SP2 cells? The cells are the ones that are 1.190-1.199v. I'm looking to get some new cells. Thanks.

danjoy25

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Have not heard of the cell. The voltage are to high to be true. Are they 30 amp discharge or 20 like the Integy.

micros_rock

They are 30A discharge. They have them at stormerhobbies, but I need somewhere that accepts paypal.

FW-05RR

wow does are some damn good specs

Kyew

Racing discharge simulation at 30 amps. tha'ts how you have your 1.19+ packs.

SlobbaTech

Don't get caught up in the #'s that much, some companies, basically all, use totally or just slightly different matching processes from the next company. So if they use a different type machine or methods like they don't run out for whole 5000 seconds, one company now has new cell that they just take voltage for like the first 5 minutes in the discharge and that's what gets printed on the label, lower discharge rate, or use varying discharge rate throughout the 5000 seconds is another way to inflate the numbers. Basically problem is everyone does something different, no way to compare one brand to another or who is truely right but the most accurate to real numbers is the matchers that just use a straight discharge rate and no tricks. A 1.17 3300 is a great cell, the best I've seen personally that I believe to be correct are 1.18's, I don't think there are any real 1.19's out there let alone enough to be able to sell and not to hold back for that companies team drivers. It's all just marketing trying to fool people somehting is what it isn't. The GP3300 cell is only one type of cell, if GP improves it somehow it is made available to everyone, don't believe anything about only one comany having some special cell no one else can get from GP. This is a whole sore subject for me and a pet peev of mine about how companies fudge numbers or whatnot, if you took offense to what I had to say then keep on feeling happy paying extra for a number that isn't correct.

burbs

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the battery company i run for, has done tons of cases of gp cells... they do not fudge the numbers. they are as true as they get... my matcher has yet to see a cell over 1.189.. im talking thousands and thousands of cells done...

if they were that readily available, he would have some... but he has never seen one..... and his batteries come from the same place everyone elses do...

you have to watch out to because some companies do not use a turbo matcher.. which is the standard in the US.. integy,orion , corrally, ect ect.. use a diff machine.. if u look at the integy web site, it even says.. our machine produces turbo matcher type numbers.... anyone can put any numbers they want on a cell.... they dont even need to match them... if u have a computer u can do what u want

danjoy25

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Burbs: I totally agree

I think I will start buying my packs from Ebay for $24.95 and is guaranteed 1.17+

Timmy_G

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good luck pulling those numbers on you're own turbo35.

stuartb

The othger thing is that the SP2 sticker is thought to be just a marketing gimmic. Becuase the latest batch of GP batteries are generally higher voltage than the previous batch, some companies have decided to rebadge as a new type of cell, when in fact all it is is the previous cell with slightly better figures

Best way to buy cells is try different ones of the same spec eg team packs, worlds packs and see which are the best and then continue to buy from that matcher - dont keep swapping based on "the numbers" as you cant do it!

Robfo

After speaking to a local orion team driver (through distributer) he swears that his new SP2 team cells are amazing and that they're a new type of cell.

What annoys me is that the people he tells are going to believe him and think that orion get cells that no one else can.

The best things about the SP2's are that in my LHS the top SP2'S are £60.99 and the old SP's (ie the same cells but just from the batch before) are £30!!! for the top spec cells. Oh well its a shame that i just got some new cells from the states as i might have had some of the SP's at that price.

The SP2's had 1.195 stickers on them (what a con)

John Tag

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The 1.19 could be because ther using a lavco matching system and not the standard turbo matcher #s your use to seeing ,a lavco 1.19 is compared to a turbo matcher 1.17

MarkA

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That's true.

Peak/Orion=Lavco=inflated #'s. I've seen that an Orion 1.195 will cycle out to around a 1.174 using CE numbers. Still a good pack but don't get too excited about seeing the big number on the label.

Chill Will

I heard that the new batch of GP3300s are going to be better from a battery sponsored driver.

Rick Hohwart

Actually Team Orion and Peak use CE equipment.

One thing that most people don't realize is that voltage enhancement processes used by different manufacturers are unique.

Unlike run time, you should expect some voltage differences from matcher to matcher.