My batteries are being ran down to no more than half, charges at 4.5-5 amps respectivily, and they were ran almost every weekend since nov. they never went more than 3 weeks between runs. I do not know brian or have his number. Just thought it was funny that when i started complaining about these batteries that 3 other pp had the same problems with the same exact batteries. I have lipos almost 2 years old, including smc's, that haven't did this prematurly.