Originally Posted by
Furadi
I assumed general lipo maintenance was a given. The single biggest killer of lipos is over discharging barring any physical damage. You can literally destroy a brand new lipo running it down to 3v if the cells aren't quality.
I somewhat disagree, in my experience most lipos puff or are rendered unusable instead of failing catastrophically, and I would say most of that is caused by heat or being stored over 60% charge. I've run cells to the cutoff, and they charge up just fine. Obviously this isn't something you want to do consistently but running a LiPo down to 3.0V per cell should not destroy it or hurt it.