Battery pack first time

General Discussion
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Hi all I am in the process of making my first board, it’s going to be a twin-motor Trampa mountain board, something for both off and on road use.

I need help in the battery pack area.

I am trying to figure out who makes good Lipo battery pack that I can trust will have a long life and hold the charge for a decent amount of time.

I did some search on YT for reviews but didn’t come across a lot. So asking those with a lot of experience with various manufactures who makes the more reliable packs that deliver the best price performance.

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All lipos will have short life comparing to liion. If going lipo, graphene and tattu are the best. Choose above 60c Expect power draw to be >20wh/km

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So are you suggesting it’s better to just build my pack with 16850 cells?

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Better with 20700 or 21700

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So if I were to go down the rabbit-hole (again) to build my own, can you please provide more suggestion. It seems Panasonic makes two types of retail cells:

30A, 3.1 Ah, NCR20700A (more power) 15A, 4.2 Ah, NCR20700B (longer range)

Would you go with Panasonic or is there better options out there?

Also what’s the optimum setup?

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Samsung 30Q 18650’s or Sanyo 20700B’s - In my opinion.

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Samsung 40T would be a beast but 20700b is cheaper. Take @Kug3lis for example, he made 12s10p pack. So if you want crazy range, massive weight, do that

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On BF probably will be half price hobbyking for Graphenes :slight_smile: So you can build same as mine 4 x 3S 6Ah 65C or 3 x 4S 6Ah 65C and as many times as you want range for e.g. With dual 6384 and running 4kW I had 20mi range with 2p so 8 x 3s in 12s 2p configuration