After extensive long-term testing, we are pleased to announce that our packs can be charged at 2C without any significant impact on cycle life. The only requirement is that a parallel charger or in-line balancer must be used, as the higher charge rate will magnify the effects of any imbalance in the pack. Use of a parallel charger or in-line balancer will eliminate these effects, and keep them from damaging your pack.

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Please define "parallel charger".

Please define "can be charged at 2C"... :huh:

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WHAT'S IN A "C" RATING?

We hear it from the grizzled veteran pilot who’s been flying since he lived next door to Wilbur and Orville Wright. We get the same question from guys who have with so little experience with electricity they think that Watts is just a neighborhood in L.A.
So what does the “C” rating on a lipo mean? For starters, the ‘C” in “C Rating” stands for capacity. To break it down to its simplest terms, the “C” rating is the maximum safe continuous discharge rate of a pack. If you see 10C on your battery, it means it can be discharged at 10 times that pack’s capacity. “Capacity” refers to the milliamp-hour rating of the battery, which will be listed as a number followed by mAh (2000mAh, for example).

Here’s the easy way to find your battery’s discharge rate – just multiply the number from the “C” rating by the pack’s capacity. Keep in mind that 1000 milliamps equals one amp. Here’s an example, using an 11.1V – 2000mAh – 10C –

11.1 volt – 2000mAh -10C
2000 milliamps = 2 amps
2 Amps x 10 = 20 amps continuous discharge

This means that you can safely draw up to 20 amps continuously from that 11.1V – 2000mAh – 10C without doing damage to your battery. Our packs have all the discharge information printed right on the label. You can check out one of our labels right here. We hope this helps clarify the most misunderstood aspect of electric flight.




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I must have a series charger...
Or would that be a serial charger? :huh:

Thanks, Justin. That was enlightening... :)

Mr Jetten Sir,

please define <_< for me.

Did you fine the information helpful? :)

Seems Like It Is. :blink:

Justin, I think Apple II computers have a special button for smiley faces. Hence your confusion. What they lack in computing power they make up for with smiley face buttons. :crying: :yickes: :ouch: :hysterical: :banana: :embarrassed: :spin:

here is some info on smileys also:

The smiley, smiley face, or happy face, is a stylized representation of a smiling human face, commonly represented as a yellow button with two dots representing eyes and a half circle representing the mouth. “Smiley” is also sometimes used as a generic term for any emoticon.

The very earliest known examples of the graphic are attributed to Harvey Ball, who devised the face in 1963 for a Worcester, Massachusetts, USA-based insurance firm, State Mutual Life Assurance. Ball never attempted to use, promote or trademark the image; it fell into the public domain in the United States before that could be accomplished.[1] As a result, Ball never made any profit for the iconic image he allegedly created beyond his initial $45 fee.

David Stern of David Stern Inc., a Seattle-based advertising agency also claimed to have invented the smiley. Stern reportedly developed his version in 1967 as part of an ad campaign for Washington Mutual, but says he did not think to trademark it.[2]

The graphic was popularized in the early 1970s by a pair of brothers, Murray and Bernard Spain, who seized upon it in a campaign to sell novelty items. The two produced buttons as well as coffee mugs, t-shirts, bumper stickers and many other items emblazoned with the symbol and the phrase "Have a happy day" (devised by Gyula Bogar).

The smiley was one of the many icons adopted by the acid house dance music culture that emerged in the late 1980s, as engraving famous logos on ecstasy tablets was a common practice at the time.[3]

The smiley has become an essential of Internet culture, with animated GIF and other image representations, as well as the ubiquitous text-based emoticon, " :- ) ". The smiley has been used for the printable version of characters 1 and 2 (one "black", the other "white") on the default font on the IBM PC and successor compatible machines, though modern fonts for graphical user interfaces often do not include those characters.

The following Unicode character points are smileys:
☹ 0x2639 White Frowning Face
☺ 0x263a White Smiling Face
☻ 0x263b Black Smiling Face

The Wingdings font also includes a smiley:
Smileys and emoticons are often used on Internet forums. Although smileys are only intended as an extra feature, some users often reply to threads with a single smiley, which is often considered to be spam on many forums. However, the use of smileys, can sometimes distinguish a message between a flame and a joke. For example, "You're a bit slow, aren't you? :)" is less likely to be interpreted as an insult than without the smiley

Many ASCII representations of smiley faces have been developed over the years. Some feature non-smiling expressions or other elaborations. They come in two main varieties, those meant to be viewed sideways, and those meant to be seen upright.

:) (Smiling)
=) (Smiling)
(^^) (Smiling)
(^-^) (Smiling)
:D (Big smile)
;] (Winking)
:| (Neutral Expression)
:/ (Partial half smile)
:( (Frowning)
:'( (Crying)
:-) (Smiley with nose)
:o (Talking/Surprised)
*<:o) (party smile)
:P (Poking his tongue out)
(O_o) (Surprise)
T_T (Manga cry)(For Sans-Serif fonts)
The two original text smileys, :-) to indicate a joke and :-( to mark things that are not a joke were invented on September 19, 1982 by Scott E. Fahlman, a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Computer Science. His original post at the CMU CS general board, where he suggested the use of the smileys, was retrieved on September 10, 2002 by Jeff Baird from an October 1982 backup tape of the spice vax (cmu-750x) as proof to support the claim.[4]

The reverse, or left-handed, smileys (-: have also gained popularity for being a way to avoid having text smileys converted to graphical representations in certain settings such as instant messaging programs.

More recently, small, in-line graphical images of smileys and other faces have become popular, especially on forums:

Oh my god, here we go again.........

Mr. Max Power shows his computer ignorance by calling my 2005 vintage Apple iMac an Apple II, which went out before Apple Macs came out in 1983. Those Macs of course used the operating system frantically copied by that Gates guy who finally, in 1995 (that's 12 years later...), had you guys using a Desktop, a Recycle Bin and Copy & Paste, the originals of which we had been using since 1983.

Oh, and we had Plug & Play, which you Windows geeks turned into Plug & PRAY, since you never knew if that new gadget that YOU were adding was going to work... :huh:

BTW - our computing power is fine, as at least it always works! No blue screens for us! We don't get those on a UNIX operating system, that, BTW, can also run your older Windows operating system AND that new Vista thingy (which I understand was a bit over-blown, according to some Windows geeks I know...)

Oh, and you are running only ONE operating system... Ours can run THREE — OS 9.x, OS 10, and Windows — all on the same computer and the first two simultaneously. Even if you hate Macs, you must at least appreciate that as a technical accomplishment... :lol:

I didn't need that much info on smileys, Mr. Justin P. I already knew about them... :yes:

But I noticed that you come across as quite a know-it-all by using that Copy & Paste feature which us Apple users have been using since 1983... :lol:

Imitation, it is said, is the best form of flattery. :roflmao:

:hysterical:

You keep your skinny trumpet out of this, 4Star40... <_<

Which operating system do the Apple II's use to play Battlefield 2142 or Battlefield 2?

Hmm, seems like I saw Windows mentioned somewere on there website for gaming???

I love Apples and Peanut butter! But I'll stick with my PC for computing dominance!!!

Apples have their place...In my belly :P

Slappy

I thought only kids played games... I mostly do productive things on my computer...

And you almost bought an Apple PowerBook... <_<

Justin must have gotten to you... :lol:

Frits, apples are fine, I just like playing games.

Where did the Common Sense guy go? I would still like to know what a parallel charger is.

Anyway here are the lyrics to My Sharona;

Ooh my little pretty one, pretty one.
When you gonna give me some time, Sharona?
Ooh you make my motor run, my motor run.
Gun it comin' off the line Sharona
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch
of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo. M M M My Sharona...

Come a little closer huh, ah will ya huh.
Close enough to look in my eyes, Sharona.
Keeping it a mystery gets to me
Running down the length of my thighs, Sharona
Never gonna stop, give it up. Such a dirty mind.
Always get it up for the touch
of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo. M M M My Sharona...

When you gonna give it to me, give it to me.
It is just a matter of time Sharona
Is it just destiny, destiny?
Or is it just a game in my mind, Sharona?
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch
of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo. M M M My Sharona...
:thumbup:

:wacko: :beer: :toot: :hmm:

:huh:

Someone has an awful lot of time on his hands... :rolleyes: