Originally Posted by
gigaplex
The chemistry of typical current gen LiHV and LiPo race batteries are the same these days. It's just up to the vendor what kind of sticker they put on the battery. Some of the battery manufacturers are actually now starting to market the LiPos as better than LiHV with claims that they hold better voltage when you're limited to 8.4V charge limits. It's a bogus claim, but there it is.
7.6V is storage voltage for both LiHV and LiPo. "Nominal" isn't being used properly here.
Nominal is absolutely being used here properly.
Your charger will put the battery at whichever storage voltage you tell it to, what matters is what the resting voltage of the pack is at 50% charge. Every pack that I have that says 7.4v is 7.4v when at 50% capacity. Every 7.6v pack I have is 7.6v when at 50% capacity.
If your batteries say 7.4v on them but are actually 7.6v then you have an advantage over anyone who is using a pack that is actually 7.4v How does that square with you being club president? I guess you have to check everyone's batteries at 50% capacity now to make sure it is fair for everyone.