Originally Posted by
gigaplex
I never said you had to storage mode them at the same voltage. What I said was that the general recommendations for what voltage to use for storage mode is the same for both LiPo and LiHV.
It's usually 7.6V-7.8V after ~10 minutes.
Is that graph supposed to be for the same battery pack? Those curves look very similar. If you take the red line, truncate it to 4.2V (since you're only charging to 4.2V), and
then shift it left it to the same starting point, you end up with basically the same average voltage over the run.
I've attempted to do just that - I just copied the red line
and moved it left until the starting voltage roughly lined up - it's the new orange-like line. With my crappy artistic skills, and without knowing the source of this data, these discharge curves look very similar.
I wouldn't say I have a battery advantage with my pack. Everyone I race against has similar calibre batteries. Nobody runs a shorty in the class I run.
You don't move the curve to the left, it stays where it is because the verticle axis is voltage and the horizontal is capacity. All you have to do is start at the same verticle point (4.2v) and follow the line exactly where it is. If you don't believe my that the two lines represent different voltages I will graph it using Excel and give you the cell data that shows the red line is always at a higher voltage.