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5th Annual S & B Model Aircraft Electric Fun Fly-In P.R.A.M.S., Griffin, Queensland - 5th & 6th May 2007   Some of the Flyers on Day 2 of the S&B Fly-In   The S&B/Tiger Elite Marque at P.R.A.M.S.  Model Makers Exhibition - Derwent Exhibition Centre, Hobart, Tasmania - 24th & 25th of March 2007   Tiger Elite booth at the MME, Hobart   Martin Lui flying his Yak 54 with a TE 470mAh 2S Pack We regret to advise that due to extraordinary demand, our Tiger Elite 470mAh 20C/22C 2S1P pack has been sold out! This pack has been extremely popular with indoor flyers, particularly the EPP Foam Yak54 Profile aircraft, as flown by Martin Lui in the picture above. We are endeavouring to import new stock, so stay tuned.

Feedback from our customers indicates very high satisfaction levels with the performance of our 20C/30C battery packs, so much so, that nearly 100% of our customers have come back to make repeat purchases of our battery packs.

We often get customers comparing the "C" rating of our packs particularly with one of other brands mentioned in this column, with them thinking a higher "C" rating stated in the pack means better or higher performance! Well, much that we would all like to believe this to be true, it simply is not the case!

We do not overstate or exaggerate the performance of our packs, and a great selling point for us has been to offer one of our packs to these customers to compare with the performance of a similar sized pack of the other brand, and let our packs speak for themselves. Please do not be blindsided by the exaggerated claims made by some, including some of the so-called "new generation" LiPos.

Some of the newer 25C/40C or 30C/50C may have improved performance, but if you look carefully at some of the test data, we believe there needs to be a lot more improvement in performance to justify the "C" ratings claimed. eg: From one manufacturer's own test data, their 2100/2200mAh 25C 11.1V 3S1P packs were only 4mAh better at 20C than their previous generation 2100/2200 20C packs. The new 25C packs were also putting out only 900mAh (approx) at 25C, so does a 40% performance of its rated capacity justify one to make claims of a 25C continuous discharge? So until these manufacturers/distributors can significantly improve the actual performance of their packs to reflect their "C" rating claims, your money is probably better spent buying the packs you can rely on.

 Sincerely,

Tiger E-Lite 

October 2008