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Old 07-16-2012 | 06:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Oldanski311
When you say do not run lipo''s till they are dead, you mean without a cut-off right. I usually run until my ESC hits the cut-off voltage (I use a 3.2V per cell cut-off). Is this bad? I've not heard until now that running until a cut-off might substantially decrease battery life.
Running down to a 3.2v cutoff is probably not a good idea. I have ours set to 3.5v and we almost never hit it.

Interesting bit of info that teeforb dropped about the 4.18v per cell instead of 4.2. I'll have to try that.
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