Newer Admiral Lipos have different dimensions and weights... How come?

[dkalwishky]

I noticed the new label right away, looks nice. I'd like a little longer balance lead, I find the leads on my current Admiral batteries to be a tad too short at times, another 1/2" - 1" would be great.

[Tom]

Balance leads are an easy change. If you guys don't like the balance lead length, let us know. I find it difficult to reach a good balance (no pun intended) between ease of charging and too much unneeded balance lead wire taking space in the battery compartment of the plane. BTW, you'll notice we changed the label design slightly. We wanted to do something to help people differentiate between the old and new Admiral packs.

[Alpha10]

Nice! Good to hear!

Hopefully they come with decent length balance leads now too... That was always a pet peeve of mine with the old ones... Too short (Under 2") most of the time.

[TiredIronGRB]

We wanted to up the performance of our standard Admiral batteries. The new Admirals are a different size and weight because they are a completely new. The performance increase with the new Admiral batteries is noticeable. We were able to accomplish this without changing the price. The dimensions and weights did change a bit. Most a pretty close to the old Admirals with a few exceptions. We were able to take some weight out of the 6S 5000 but it had to be a little longer to accomplish this. I think you will all be very pleased with the performance and quality increase. The new line is better in every way. If you liked the old Admirals, you'll love the new Admirals.

I love these new packs, I have a set of the 4S 4000mAh I use in my Tigercat and since they are tighter wrapped they fit better than the earlier Admirals and the wires and terminals look to be better quality as well. Charges faster than the earlier ones I'll try and do some flight time comparisons between the old and new Admirals as well as the 4S 4000mAh ChinaHobbyLine packs.

[Alpha10]

We wanted to up the performance of our standard Admiral batteries. The new Admirals are a different size and weight because they are a completely new. The performance increase with the new Admiral batteries is noticeable. We were able to accomplish this without changing the price. The dimensions and weights did change a bit. Most a pretty close to the old Admirals with a few exceptions. We were able to take some weight out of the 6S 5000 but it had to be a little longer to accomplish this. I think you will all be very pleased with the performance and quality increase. The new line is better in every way. If you liked the old Admirals, you'll love the new Admirals.

Great news... I'm excited to put them to the test! Thanks!

[Tom]

We wanted to up the performance of our standard Admiral batteries. The new Admirals are a different size and weight because they are a completely new. The performance increase with the new Admiral batteries is noticeable. We were able to accomplish this without changing the price. The dimensions and weights did change a bit. Most a pretty close to the old Admirals with a few exceptions. We were able to take some weight out of the 6S 5000 but it had to be a little longer to accomplish this. I think you will all be very pleased with the performance and quality increase. The new line is better in every way. If you liked the old Admirals, you'll love the new Admirals.

[Alpha10]

Alpha10, here is a quote from Tom talking a bit about the new batteries. it's from a thead here about Graphene batteries. Not much in the way of details:

"Knowing all of that, we are working on our own high performance carbon conductor packs with the same conductor. The goal is to have something in a few months. Additionally, we've switched factories and completely changed the formula for our Admiral and Admiral Pro packs so you are going to see a big performance gain with "regular" Admiral packs and Admiral Pro packs. Those will arrive in a few days."

We've requested more details, but didn't get any.

I just got some of the new 4S and 6S packs. They look and feel really good. Haven't had a chance to put any to the test yet due to weather.

Interesting... Sounds like good things in the future for the Admiral brand. I'll minimize my stock until the new line gets some reviews and the new Graphene line come to market.

Thanks!

[Twowingtj]

Alpha10, here is a quote from Tom talking a bit about the new batteries. it's from a thead here about Graphene batteries. Not much in the way of details:

"Knowing all of that, we are working on our own high performance carbon conductor packs with the same conductor. The goal is to have something in a few months. Additionally, we've switched factories and completely changed the formula for our Admiral and Admiral Pro packs so you are going to see a big performance gain with "regular" Admiral packs and Admiral Pro packs. Those will arrive in a few days."

We've requested more details, but didn't get any.

I just got some of the new 4S and 6S packs. They look and feel really good. Haven't had a chance to put any to the test yet due to weather.

[Alpha10]

I just noticed that all the Admiral lipos have had new images uploaded to the site... I also noticed that a lot of packs have become heavier and other lighter and the sizes/dimensions are completely different.

Did you guys get a new supplier or change the specs somehow?

I'm just wondering what caused these changes as I was about to buy another round of 6s packs, but the new ones are drastically different in size and weight for the same mAh.

Thanks!