Hobby King is having a flash sale on the Multistar 10,000 mAh 6s batteries. I bought 4 of these and will connect for 20,000 mAh 12s total. They even had a free shipping option from Hong Kong to the USA. My total cost for all 4 shipped to the US was less than $200.
That’s what I got: 2x16000mAH for 150$ including free shipping “dangerous goods” from HK to CH. They arrived within a week. Haven’t connected them to anything, might charge them to “Storage Voltage” to keep them in good shape, eFoil is not ready yet…
Weird they quit making the high capacity Multi-star and now label them as turnigy. I never really understood their branding on batteries. Now they have Heavy duty, zippy, zippy-compact, turnigy nano-tech, Graphene, Panther, and on and on. I get you need different types, but come on! I have no idea if they are just selling the same battery in a different color shrink wrap. I guess for now on we’ll see Turnigy high capacity for bikes and such. No more bright green batteries. They label the batteries as 12c instead of the old 10c. Still, wish the prices would go back to what they were a few years ago. These things were like $50 over Black Friday just two years ago. Lipo no longer makes much sense as a quality li-ion battery is similar in price.
@Dirkdiggler I feel you. I managed to buy 6 4s 16000mah before they go out of stock.
Problem with Li ion is it is very hard to find genuine cells for reasonable price. I bough multiple LG HG2 samples from ebay ,US and Chinese sellers all of them turned out knock off ones after DCIR and capacity test.
There is reliable sellers but their price is pretty high. It doesnt make sense to pay 5 to 6$ for the cell that supposed to be around 2.5 to 3$