Originally Posted by
3500ltz
Ah shit well that can happen to the best of em! For some reason my max8 combo ran one of my 4s batt cells to 2.9v and the other cells were 3.3ish, first time thats ever happened to me! No idea what went wrong since it has been reliable at cutting out at proper 3.7ish. I don't trust the LVC on this max8 anymore like i do my castle's so I installed one of those little lvc alarms as a backup now, also nice and handy to see what the heck your batteries are even at!
You might be able to bring the cell/battery back to life. Balance it and then run it down (but not past 3.8 a few times, mine seems to be working fine again. Best of luck!
ESC's only measure the total voltage of a lipo. so it can't know which cell is actually too low.
i noticed lipo always have 1 cell that will drop lower than the others and soon they die. i have only nanotechs and recently orion lipo. i got too say that i was quiet disapointed with the expensive orion...
i hope lipo battery will continue to really improve soon because there is nothing new since a while actually !
oh and BTW, you should use a low cell detector instead of the ESC : they connect to the cell connector, not to the main connector