For me I wanted to start this post to hear what people think of maxamps batteries.
For me it is one of buyer beware and I will explain why. In my case is a fairly straight forward situation, I purchased a maxamps 10,900 (6s)mha last June for my heavy lift Octo. Over the past year the battery has been very well care for, used about 30 times, max 40. I have never discharged the battery 80% of its capacity, and has been in a consistent temperature environment.
Last month when I went to fly my copter and noticed that the battery was starting to show signs of fatigue, I have notice a very little duration change but more importantly the battery is starting puff.
When I contacted the Maxamps customer service by email (clint) explaining my concerns I did not hear back from them. I waited two weeks and sent another mail and the same thing, I did not hear from them. So after another two weeks I call and talked with Evan, this was about three weeks ago. Per our phone call he asked me to take photos of the battery so he could see if it was safe for shipping, not sure 100% why but so be it.
I did that and email it to him that night, again after not hearing from them after about two weeks I resent the email and then got and response. In that response it started going into reasons why my duration may be dropping is because of the age of the battery and to me if that was the only sign of things then I would actually be ok with that.
My problem comes with the battery starting to puff, with very little use on it. In the past I have had all type of batteries some good and some bad but the once that stated puffing in a such a short usage (nanotech’s – AKA’s) I would deem bad and not really good to use with multirotors. I have had other batteries such as thunderpower and gensace that after 100 uses I am not seeing any of this type of behavior and they are working like they did when they were new.
I have two problems with Maxamps is one being the price of the battery, I could by 2 sets of batteries adding up to the same compactly and for the price of one Maxamps. The second is how they market the battery as being the best in the business with a money back guarantee. Now that I have been trying to tell them about my problems the efforts its taking me to get them to look at the battery is becoming very unimpressive, to a point I would tell people this.
Buyer beware and when it comes to batteries out there I would spend money elsewhere. To put it into prospective, when I bought my maxamps 10,900 I also purchased 2 Gensace 5300 mha, that I use in the rotation of a set of three. One of my sets of Gensace has over 100 cycles on it and they are running great with no signs of weakness. The set I purchased at the same time as the Maxamps, with the same amount of time on them are also doing great, MY MAXAMPS ----- PUFFING!!!
There is nothing like consistency and when you pay 2 times the amount for a battery one would hope consistency would not match that of customer service.
As I said in the beginning of this winded post I would like to hear from others out there and hear their results.
Best all Jack
For me it is one of buyer beware and I will explain why. In my case is a fairly straight forward situation, I purchased a maxamps 10,900 (6s)mha last June for my heavy lift Octo. Over the past year the battery has been very well care for, used about 30 times, max 40. I have never discharged the battery 80% of its capacity, and has been in a consistent temperature environment.
Last month when I went to fly my copter and noticed that the battery was starting to show signs of fatigue, I have notice a very little duration change but more importantly the battery is starting puff.
When I contacted the Maxamps customer service by email (clint) explaining my concerns I did not hear back from them. I waited two weeks and sent another mail and the same thing, I did not hear from them. So after another two weeks I call and talked with Evan, this was about three weeks ago. Per our phone call he asked me to take photos of the battery so he could see if it was safe for shipping, not sure 100% why but so be it.
I did that and email it to him that night, again after not hearing from them after about two weeks I resent the email and then got and response. In that response it started going into reasons why my duration may be dropping is because of the age of the battery and to me if that was the only sign of things then I would actually be ok with that.
My problem comes with the battery starting to puff, with very little use on it. In the past I have had all type of batteries some good and some bad but the once that stated puffing in a such a short usage (nanotech’s – AKA’s) I would deem bad and not really good to use with multirotors. I have had other batteries such as thunderpower and gensace that after 100 uses I am not seeing any of this type of behavior and they are working like they did when they were new.
I have two problems with Maxamps is one being the price of the battery, I could by 2 sets of batteries adding up to the same compactly and for the price of one Maxamps. The second is how they market the battery as being the best in the business with a money back guarantee. Now that I have been trying to tell them about my problems the efforts its taking me to get them to look at the battery is becoming very unimpressive, to a point I would tell people this.
Buyer beware and when it comes to batteries out there I would spend money elsewhere. To put it into prospective, when I bought my maxamps 10,900 I also purchased 2 Gensace 5300 mha, that I use in the rotation of a set of three. One of my sets of Gensace has over 100 cycles on it and they are running great with no signs of weakness. The set I purchased at the same time as the Maxamps, with the same amount of time on them are also doing great, MY MAXAMPS ----- PUFFING!!!
There is nothing like consistency and when you pay 2 times the amount for a battery one would hope consistency would not match that of customer service.
As I said in the beginning of this winded post I would like to hear from others out there and hear their results.
Best all Jack
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