[NSRCA-discussion] 6S+4S-Good or Bad?

[Bill's Email]

In my experience of running similar set ups this has not proven to be an 
issue. Even when I was doing the boat thing and consuming 80% of the 
pack capacity in 90 seconds or less, the 6/4 set up did not prove to be 
a problem. You read that right. In the racing boat I would use around 
9,000 mAh of capacity from the packs. Even at those loads, no issues. At 
the significantly lower loads we see in a pattern plane I would not give 
it much thought.

One caveat is to make sure that you always use those 2 packs together. I 
use Hyperion chargers that will balance the 2 packs as if they were a 
single 10S pack (both 4S/6S and 5S/5S).



On 12/10/12 11:29 AM, Atwood, Mark wrote:
> I think this would be my biggest concern, that while the packs might be labeled the same (same MAH and C rating) that the interncal cells might actually vary more between 4s and 6s configurations than they would with identical 5s pack. Different production runs, etc.
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> Theoretically though there should be no difference.
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