Originally Posted by
racer1812
I'm sure what you meant was what happens if you run a lipo without a cutoff. Nothing happens when you "connect" a lipo without a cut-off but if your run the lipo down to far you may get poof, swell, smoke, fire, maybe not in that order though..lol
Again I will repeat, there is nothing wrong with running the battery with the cutoff turned off! It's only bad if you run the lipo with the cutoff turned off AND THEN drive the car until the battery gets below ~6.0v.
Most of the local racers at our track don't run the Lipo cutoff because momentary voltage drops from hard acceleration with powerful motors can cause the lipo cutoff to kick in even when there is plenty of juice left in the battery, leaving you dead and stranded in the middle of a race.