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Maytech is generally pretty solid but that battery is shit.

The cells they use are Panasonic ncr18650bd which only have a discharge rating of 10A. Aliexpress sellers notoriously misspec their batteries. I wouldn’t buy from there.

Your total battery’s discharge capability is the individual cell types discharge rating times the number of parallel groups in your battery pack.

Battery Basics for Beginners Wiki [Serious]

I see the same question being asked by many newcomers here so I would like to shed some BASIC info on batteries used in esk8, notation, configuration, ratings, etc. Battery Notation Common battery notation you keep seeing or will see is a (XX)s(YY)p battery with (ZZ) cells: XX is the number of cells you have in series ( s ) type connection. YY is the number of cells you have in parallel ( p ) type connection. ZZ is the actual battery cell type used. At the time this article was writt…

For the vesc/esc switch. The cheapest, easiest, and most reliable method used is an XT90-S loop key.

How to make an XT90 Loop Key

Arguably, the most reliable way to control power to an ESC [pair] is to use an XT90S loopkey. [20190219_024916][20190219_024931] It may not be the prettiest or the shiniest or the most foolproof, but it probably will outlast almost any other way if done correctly, and it’s certainly the cheapest. This does have antispark characteristics if you use the “XT90S” instead of the “XT90” variant of the female connector. You definitely don’t want to use the female XT90. Essentially, you make “a k…