Originally Posted by
BuckMan
Just to add to this as...
If you charge your Lipos at a lower C rating you are going to see a longer runtime and a longer overall life span, if you charge them at a higher C rating, you will see decreased runtime, and decresaed lifespan, but you will see a slight increase in power.
If charged to a given MAH at 2c, that battery will have the same runtime as a battery charged to the same MAH at 5c, or any other charge rate. Mah is Mah.
And all this hoopla over reduced service life when charging at higher rates has yet to be proven, IMO. There may be studies and theory, but in practice in the field I don't believe it. Any pack I own that allows for charging at greater than 1c gets at least a 2c charge. IR in every one of those packs is still low and they all still balance quickly and evenly, and they all are well over a year old now.
All you guys that are worried can enjoy wasting time at 1c. I'll stick to higher charge rates because nothing I've seen with this practice on my own packs has proven to be harmful.
And...for what it's worth, I store my packs on a wooden shelf, without a Lipo sack in sight, OMG.
