Originally Posted by
yoshgixxer
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allumina..whats the deal with the switch and why not use it?? is this the cause of regulator failure??
slaytanic--that orion reg looks bad ass..i like how it has a built in heat sink to dissapate heat!! BAD ASS! its cheap too!
Ive been told not to use a switch for a couple [very important] reasons:
1) Its another point of failure. switches go bad pretty often, i never run a switch either way, lipo or not
2) From what one of my pro buddies told me, if your battery is plugged into the regulator+switch [EVEN if its switched off] its still pulling a draw on the lipo, and wears on your charge. The only way for it to be totally unhooked, is just that -unhook it.
So i just run the switchless regulator, and unplug the battery from the regulator after each run.